Routine Drug may be Used to Prevent Few Skin Cancers by Angela Mohan on April 14, 2021 at 12:42 PM Skin cancer could be treated by an oral drug currently used in the clinical setting to treat neuromuscular diseases, as per the data published by researchers at The Ohio State University Comprehensive Cancer Center - Arthur G. James Cancer Hospital and Richard J. Solove Research Institute (OSUCCC - James). While this data was gathered from preclinical studies, senior author Sujit Basu, MD, PhD, says preliminary results in animal models are very promising and worthy of immediate further investigation through phase I human studies.