Cancer

Studies from A.A. Morales et al have provided new data on cancer

Published in Hematology Week, July 6th, 2009

According to a study from the United States, "Arsenicals are both environmental carcinogens as well as therapeutic agents for the treatment of trypanosomiasis and more recently cancer. Arsenic trioxide (ATO) has been successfully used for the treatment of acute promyelocytic leukemia (APL) and has activity in multiple myeloma (MM)."

"While signaling events associated with carcinogenesis have been well studied, it still remains to be determined which of these events are involved in anti-cancer signaling. To better define this response, gene expression profiling following ATO treatment of four MM cell lines was performed. The pattern was consistent with a strong...

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Source: Hematology Week (2009-07-06)

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