Breakthrough research at UT starves cancer cells

AUSTIN (KXAN) – Researchers at the University of Texas at Austin say they have found a way to cut off cancer’s food supply and watch it starve to death. The major breakthrough means a new cancer-fighting drug.
Dr. Everett Stone is one of the researchers behind the drug called cyst(e)inase, which has treated prostate and breast cancers in animals and has shown to lengthen the lifespans in cases of leukemia. “We really believe it’s going to work well with existing drug