Cancer cells ‘cheat suicide call’
Cancer cells cheat death by reversing a process which causes normal cells to commit suicide at the end of their natural life, scientists have shown.
They showed cancer cells were able to recover even after exposure to a chemical cocktail which triggers suicide in normal cells.
The ability may help cancer cells to block the effect of chemotherapy drugs.
The study, by the Chinese University of Hong Kong, appears in the British Journal of Cancer.
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on Jan 5th, 2009 and is filed under General Health.
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