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Study Identifies Gene Linking Chronic Inflammation to Cancer
November 11th, 2008
Many cancers are believed to be caused or accelerated by chronic inflammation, such as skin, lung, colon, and prostate cancers. Genes that connect inflammation and cancer are of great medical interest because they may offer tactics to prevent or treat these diseases. A team of researchers at the Lankenau Institute of Medical Research (LIMR) and the Medical College of Georgia (MCG) report the discovery that a gene called IDO is needed to link inflammation to cancer formation. The findings by this team, headed up by Drs. Alexander Muller and George C. Prendergast at LIMR and Drs. David Munn, Madhav Sharma, and Andrew Mellor at MCG, are reported in a paper in the...
Source: Cancer Weekly (2008-11-11)
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