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Reports from University of Wisconsin, U.S., highlight recent research in cancer treatment

Published in Surgery Litigation and Law Weekly, January 26th, 2007

Investigators from University of Wisconsin, U.S., publish new cancer treatment data.

Study 1: Current study results from the report, "In-vivo activation of Raf-1 inhibits tumor growth and development in a xenograft model of human medullary thyroid cancer," have been published. "Apart from surgical resection, there are no effective therapies for medullary thyroid cancer, a neuroendocrine tumor derived from parafollicular C cells. We have previously shown that activation of raf-1 in TT-raf cells by estradiol suppresses tumor cell growth and calcitonin secretion in vitro," scientists in the United States report.

"TT-raf cells are a human medullary...

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