Tackling a hard-to-treat childhood cancer by targeting epigenetic changes
Tuesday, November 4, 2008 - 12:21
in Health & Medicine
A very difficult-to-treat child leukaemia may benefit from the discovery of a small but potent epigenetic change that launches the cancer - but could potentially be reversed relatively easily, preventing cancer-promoting genes from being turned on. The study, led by researchers at Children's Hospital Boston and the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, is the cover article in the 4 November issue of Cancer Cell...