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A widely used chemotherapy drug to treat cancer can have harmful side-effects for the heart, but researchers in Winnipeg say they’ve discovered a way to prevent the damage from happening. The research showed a gene that activates during a heart attack is also triggered by the drug doxorubicin. Researchers discovered when that gene is blocked, the cancer treatment can go ahead without a harmful heart impact on the patient. Via CTV News Winnipeg.
