Repurposed drug has promising efficacy in shrinking NSCLC tumors

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An FDA-approved drug used to treat multiple myeloma and lymphoma also shrank tumors in non-small cell lung cancer with KRAS mutations, a clinical trial led by UT Southwestern Harold C. Simmons Comprehensive Cancer Center researchers showed. 

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