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09/03/2012
UUC Scientists Use Viruses To Stop Growth Of Breast Cancer Tumours
A new treatment for breast cancer has been discovered at University College Cork.
Researchers found that delivering human genes by means of a modified virus to breast cancer tumour cells causes genes to generate signals within the tumour to cut off its blood supply and halt growth.
Dr Mark Tangney, the Principle Investigator at the Cork Cancer Research Centre at UCC, said they are developing its clinical appliance.
“It is not something that works in the laboratory, but does not work in the patient. If we go and apply them to tumours here in Cork, they work very well and we have very solid evidence that it is not just a phenomenon in the lab, that it gets into breast cancer tumours for real,” he told The Irish Times.
(GK)
Researchers found that delivering human genes by means of a modified virus to breast cancer tumour cells causes genes to generate signals within the tumour to cut off its blood supply and halt growth.
Dr Mark Tangney, the Principle Investigator at the Cork Cancer Research Centre at UCC, said they are developing its clinical appliance.
“It is not something that works in the laboratory, but does not work in the patient. If we go and apply them to tumours here in Cork, they work very well and we have very solid evidence that it is not just a phenomenon in the lab, that it gets into breast cancer tumours for real,” he told The Irish Times.
(GK)
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