Removing mutant p53 significantly regresses tumors, improves cancer survival
Monday, May 25, 2015 - 13:00
in Health & Medicine
For two decades cancer researchers have looked unsuccessfully for ways to develop compounds to restore the function of mutant p53 proteins. Now a team of researchers has discovered that eliminating the abnormally stabilized mutant p53 protein in cancer in vivo has positive therapeutic effects, showing that tumors regress significantly and survival increases.