Researchers map new path to colon cancer therapy

Tuesday, December 16, 2008 - 09:49 in Health & Medicine

University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston researchers have identified a promising new target in the battle against colorectal cancer - a biochemical pathway critical to the spread of tumours to new locations in the body. If this 'survival pathway' can be successfully blocked under clinical conditions, the result would be a much-needed new therapy for colorectal cancer, the second leading cause of cancer death in the United States...

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