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Addiction Medicine
Studies conducted at Stanford University on addiction medicine recently published
November 18th, 2008
According to recent research published in the journal Apmis, "Cancer is cause dby genetic changes that activate oncogenes or inactivate tumor supressor genes. The repair orinactication of mutant genes may be effective in the treatment of cancer." "Indeed, drugs that target oncogenes can be effective in the treatment of cancer. However, it is still unclear why the inactivation of a single cancer-associated gene would ever result in the elimination of tumor cells. In experimentla transgenic mouse models the consequences of oncogenic inactivation depend upon the genetic and cellular context. In some cases, oncogenic inactivation results in the elimination of all or...
Source: Cancer Weekly (2008-11-18)
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