article_snippet.sent: An experimental cancer drug axed over poor results was developed by the British pharmaceutical giant Astra Zeneca with the original aim of treating certain types of tumour, but was shelved after An experimental cancer drug axed over poor results proved ineffective.
article_snippet.sent: An experimental cancer drug axed over poor results.
article_snippet.sent: the study was funded by the National Institutes of Health which launched a programme to test failed drugs on different diseases.
highlights_snippet.sent: Drug called AZDO5030 originally designed to treat certain types of tumour .
  
highlights_snippet.sent: Human trials have already been launched to test efficacy of drug in patients .