BIOMEDICINE:Does Cancer Therapy Trigger Cell Suicide?

摘要: BIOMEDICINEThe notion that drugs and radiation kill cancer cells by causing them to self-destruct has guided drug searches for the past few years. But some experts aren't convinced this is case, at least not solid tumors such as cancers of lung, breast, prostate, colon. They say kinds test tube assays point apoptosis, cell suicide more technically called, critical therapy may accurately reflect what happens in have developed naturally body. What's more, they argue, using based on apoptosis screen might cause researchers miss other means.