Dormant cancer cells rely on cellular self-cannibalisation to survive

Saturday, January 3, 2009 - 11:56 in Health & Medicine

A single tumour-suppressing gene is a key to understanding, and perhaps killing, dormant ovarian cancer cells that persist after initial treatment only to reawaken years later, researchers at The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Centre report in the December Journal of Clinical Investigation...

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