Steering cancer inflammation to inhibit tumor growth and spread
Monday, January 10, 2011 - 23:30
in Health & Medicine
Most cancer tissues are invaded by inflammatory cells that either stimulate or inhibit the growth of the tumor, depending on what immune cells are involved. Now a Swedish-Belgian research team has shown that a protein that naturally occurs in the body, HRG, inhibits tumor growth and metastasis into secondary organs by activating specific immune cells.