Cancer-causing gene discovery suggests new therapies
Date: 24.1.2009
Scientists have discovered a novel way by which a much-studied **cancer**-promoting gene accelerates the disease. The finding suggests a new strategy to halt cancer's progress.
The finding in mice suggests that drugs already available to counter this increased protein production could slow or stop cancer's runaway growth induced by Myc. Rapamycin, for example, an immunosuppressant drug already in clinical trials for cancer, might help treat cancers where Myc is over active, the scientists suggest.
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