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First author of the 1963 paper 'Hydroxyurea. A new type of potential antitumor agent'

Barbara Stearns

First author, with Kathryn A. Losee and Jack Bernstein, of the 1963 Journal of Medicinal Chemistry paper on hydroxyurea as a new type of potential antitumour agent. A 2021 review cites it, with a 1965 study of congeners against leukaemia L1210, for the antitumour abilities of hydroxyurea first reported in the 1960s.

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  1. STEARNS B, LOSEE KA, BERNSTEIN J. HYDROXYUREA. A NEW TYPE OF POTENTIAL ANTITUMOR AGENT. J Med Chem. 1963;6:201.

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  2. Musiałek MW, Rybaczek D. Hydroxyurea-The Good, the Bad and the Ugly. Genes (Basel). 2021;12(7).

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