Inner workings of virus responsible for rare skin cancer

Thursday, September 15, 2011 - 13:30 in Health & Medicine

Scientists at the University of Pittsburgh Cancer Institute have begun to uncover how the virus that causes most Merkel cell carcinoma – a rare and aggressive skin cancer – operates, meaning that a rational chemotherapeutic target for this cancer could be developed in the near future.

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