Cancer: Pushing the OFF Button

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This sounds like a promising line of research in treating cancer.  A drug already in use for other purposes is capable of switching cancer cells back to a more normal growth cycle so they die off instead of replicating infinitely.  Major drug companies aren't interested because it can't be patented.  Okay, fine.  Somebody else go do it.  Surely there must be a Nobel in this somewhere, if it works as well in practice as the preliminary results suggest.  Granted, that rarely happens, but this is one of the more intriguing cancer treatments I've seen -- the base premise is very clever.