Proteins Prevent Cancer

Friday, February 5, 2010

Proteins Prevent Cancer
Health experts expect the existence of a drug that not only works to kill cancer cells, but also encourages the body to produce replacement cells are healthy.
And these experts discovered how proteins "like a snail" play an important role in the repair of DNA damage, which leads to cancer.

The family of these proteins, Small ubiquitin-like Modifier (Sumo), able to escape when in the body where the damage occurred and such DNA reveal mechanism of the body to fight the growth of cancer cells.

In particular, the findings were a first step toward developing drugs that may protect normal cells from the side effects of chemotherapy and radiotherapy, at the same time, improving the effectiveness of breast cancer treatment developed at this time.
This discovery is still in the research process, and hope for cancer patients that these findings could be useful for us.

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