BBC NEWS | Health | Cheap molecule may attack tumours: "The University of Alberta team, writing in the journal Cancer Cell, now say it could encourage cancer cells to die.
Experts say much more research will be needed before an effective cancer treatment can emerge.
One of the really exciting things about this compound is that it might be able to treat many different forms of cancer
Dr Evangelos Michelakis
University of Alberta
One of the most important features of many cancers is its ability to cheat the normal process of cell death that happens in normal tissue.
Many scientists are working on ways to find out how it does this, and to switch the mechanism back on."
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