Scientists develop a new approach for cancer treatment

Monday, August 31, 2009 - 06:21 in Health & Medicine

A new paradigm in the way we look at cancer with important implications on how we treat it is about to be published in the British Journal of Cancer1 by Portuguese, Belgian and American researchers. The group use a mathematical approach to reveal how - by changing the dynamics of interaction between the cancer cells and those of the affected tissue – it is possible to control and even potentially cure the disease. Even more interesting is the fact that this new approach can be used in any number of pathologies where different cells interact. read more

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