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"cancer suppressor" is something that helps prevent or stop the growth and spread of cancer cells in the body. It acts like a barrier or defense mechanism against the development of cancer.
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Conjugated linoleic acid (CLA) up - regulates the estrogen - regulated
cancer suppressor gene, protein tyrosine phosphatase gamma (PTPgama), in human breast cells.
Researchers at Penn State College of Medicine, working with Chinese and American colleagues, have discovered a novel way to enhance and
restore cancer suppressor activity in B - cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia, resulting in better outcomes in a pre-clinical model of the disease.
Normal BRCA genes encode proteins that are
cancer suppressors.
Now, a team at Harvard Medical School has devised a way to understand patterns of aneuploidy in tumors and predict which genes in the affected chromosomes are likely to be
cancer suppressors or promoters.
But three patients in a French trial developed leukemia; in at least two of these cases, the retrovirus that carried the corrective gene had disrupted
a cancer suppressor gene (ScienceNOW, 7 March).
Keto diet is
a cancer suppressor and reduces its growth and metastasis.