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    Cancer Drug That Might Slow Parkinson's, Alzheimer's Headed For Bigger Tests

    In a preliminary study, the cancer drug nilotinib seemed to help patients with Parkinson's and dementia. Now two larger and more rigorous studies of the drug are under way.
    by Jon Hamilton Mar 15, 2017 3 minutes
    A colored magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scans of the brain of a 76-year-old patient with dementia shows the brain has atrophied and the dark brown fluid-filled spaces have become enlarged.

    Scientists are hoping that a single drug can treat two devastating brain diseases: Parkinson's and Alzheimer's.

    The drug is nilotinib, which is approved to treat a form of leukemia.

    In late 2015, researchers at Georgetown University Medical Center that small doses of the drug appeared to help a handful of people with Parkinson's disease and a related form of dementia. They'd tried the unlikely treatment because they knew nilotinib triggered cells to get

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