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Canadian team discovers gene that turns cancers off

Promising story from Canada's globeandmail.com... (so radiation causes rampant tumor growth?)

A unique gene that can stop cancerous cells from multiplying into tumours has been discovered by a team of scientists at the B.C. Cancer Agency in Vancouver.

The team, led by Dr. Poul Sorensen, says the gene has the power to suppress the growth of human tumours in multiple cancers, including breast, lung and liver.

The gene, HACE 1, helps cells fight off stress that, left unchecked, opens the door to formation of multiple tumours. Dr. Sorensen's team found cancerous cells form tumours when HACE 1 is inactive, but when additional stress such as radiation is added, tumour growth is rampant.

Posted by Tyler Suchman on August 13, 2007 09:42 PM | | | Canadian team discovers gene that turns cancers off

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It is a little early to get hopeful about this. The Nature Medicine Journal has not yet posted this on their website and neither has the B. C. Cancer Agency. It would be best to send links from these two places with the research publications linked to the blog. It will take a few years for other scientists to confirm or refute the findings of this group so I hope you will keep up with the unfolding research papers and post links to the studies. Peace. Nick

Comment #1 Posted by: Nickie Scott | October 4, 2007 05:33 PM

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