New Hope for Deadly Childhood Bone Cancer

Tuesday, September 1, 2009 - 16:14 in Health & Medicine

Researchers at Huntsman Cancer Institute (HCI) at the University of Utah have shed new light on Ewing�s sarcoma, an often deadly bone cancer that typically afflicts children and young adults. Their research shows that patients with poor outcomes have tumors with high levels of a protein known as GSTM4, which may suppress the effects of chemotherapy. The research is published online today in the journal Oncogene.

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