Ingenol mebutate (PEP005), an experimental gel treatment for pre-cancerous skin lesions actinic (solar) keratosis by Leo Pharma, has been shown effective in late-phase clinical studies.

The common treatment against prostate cancer, androgen-deprivation therapy (ADT) can worsen heart risk factors and may increase the risk of heart attack and/or cardiac death, according to a science advisory published in Circulation: Journal of the American Heart Association and CA: A Cancer Journal for Clinicians.

Prices of drugs to treat cancer and AIDS could become cheaper in India as the government is proposing a total customs duty waiver for these life-saving drugs in the budget fiscal year 2010-11, reports said.