Study explores possible 'safe and effective' anti-cancer therapy
Friday, February 3, 2012 - 07:01
in Health & Medicine
(Medical Xpress) -- New findings discovered by an international research team, which includes a professor from Western University, may lead to a safe and effective anti-cancer therapy. A report published online today in the journal Cell Reports, co-authored by Dr. Dean Betts of Western's Schulich School of Medicine & Dentistry and Dr. Lea Harrington of Montreal University's Institut de Recherche en Immunologie et en Cancérologie, provides important evidence that human cancer tumours rely on the maintenance of telomeres or the protective ends of chromosomes for growth only when the telomeres shrink in length.