New Hope For Deadly Childhood Bone Cancer: Surprising Discovery Made By Studying 'Junk DNA'
Tuesday, September 1, 2009 - 11:21
in Health & Medicine
Researchers 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.