CSHL study shows that some malignant tumours can be shut down after all

Tuesday, November 10, 2009 - 11:14 in Health & Medicine

Oncologists have had their hands tied because more than half of all human cancers have mutations that disable a protein called p53. As a critical anti-cancer watchdog, p53 masterminds several cancer-fighting operations within cells. When cells lose p53, tumours grow aggressively and often cannot be treated...

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