Lung Cancer - Even If You Can't Prevent It, There May Be A Better Way To Kill It
Friday, May 4, 2012 - 18:20
in Health & Medicine
Among cancer deaths worldwide, lung cancer is the leader. It isn't just the tumor cells, the growth of blood vessels controls tumors development and blood vessel growth is controlled by several signalling molecules. Scientists have discovered a molecule, phosphodiesterase PDE4, that plays a key role in this process and they have succeeded in reducing tumor growth in their experiments by blocking the it. read more
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