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