Treatment offering new hope for late-stage colorectal cancer patients under development at University of Saskatchewan

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Treatment offering new hope for late-stage colorectal cancer patients under development at University of Saskatchewan
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He has also been getting messages of encouragement from back home in his native country, Cameroon.

A medical researcher at the University of Saskatchewan is bringing the quest for a magic bullet in cancer treatment one step closer to reality.

Fonge said he now has “tons of data” to show that the new treatment works. In mice, he has seen a complete cure in “up to 80 per cent” of them. Now an award of more than $800,000 from the Canadian Institutes of Health Research will help him move on to human clinical trials. Fonge said receiving messages like that “really touches my heart,” and drives him to help improve care.

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