Surprise advance in the treatment of adult cancers
Wednesday, January 11, 2017 - 11:21
in Health & Medicine
An epigenetic modification that might be the cause of 15% of adult cancers of the throat linked to alcohol and tobacco use was identified. This discovery was unexpected since it seemed highly improbable that this kind of alterations of the epigenome found in children could also target an epithelial tumor like throat cancer that occurs only in adults.