Cervical Cancer

Mast Cell Enzyme Joins Other Growth Factors In Cancer Role

Published in Cancer Weekly, September 25th, 2001

by Sonia Nichols, senior medical writer - Scientists believe mast cell tryptase might be as important to uterine cervix carcinoma progression as two more commonly known growth factors.

"Recently, mast cell tryptase has been identified as another potent proangiogenic factor in tumors, along with fibroblast and vascular endothelial growth factors," said L. Benitez-Bribiesca and coworkers, National Medical Center S-XXI, Mexico.

Members of the Oncology Research Unit at the medical center compared biopsy specimens of 63 patients diagnosed with dysplasia or cancer and 21 healthy controls for differences in mast cell tryptase expression in order to assess...

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