New hope for cancer treatment
Improved treatment for bowel cancer could be on the way thanks to a recent study, it has been reported.
Researchers in Cardiff and Glasgow have ascertained how bowel cancer becomes increasingly aggressive.
They identified three proteins which, when combined, stimulate tumours and make them more likely to spread.
Professor Alan Clarke, a Cancer Research UK scientist at the Cardiff School of Biosciences, said the research provides an illustration of how the disease progresses.
"This has given us a clearer picture of how bowel tumours actually grow and provides scientists with crucial information for drug design to slow down or stop the spread of the disease," he said.
Dr Lesley Walker of Cancer Research UK added that bowel cancer – one of the most common forms of the disease – is much more problematic to treat when it becomes advanced.
Cancer Research UK concluded that the research was "fundamental" to understanding the disease.
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