Protein may be key to new treatment in a childhood cancer

Tuesday, February 8, 2011 - 11:52 in Health & Medicine

After analysing hundreds of proteins produced by the DNA of tumour cells, researchers have identified one protein that may be central to a new treatment for the often-fatal childhood cancer neuroblastoma. Oncologists hope to translate the finding into paediatric clinical trials of a drug that blocks the protein's activity...

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