Washington D.C., Dec. 14 -- : Whenever you suffer fever or infection, the first thing you are referred to is taking antibiotics as these drugs destroy or slow down the growth of bacteria.
Antibiotics also lead to positive effect on human health. A new study has come up with the new benefit of destroying cancer and tumour cells in the body.
The study on mice has found that giving a dose of common antibiotic not only helped immune cells kill tumours that were directly treated with radiation but also kill cancer cells that were further away in the body, paving the way for researchers to test the approach in a human clinical trial.
The study was published in the Journal of Clinical Investigation.
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