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Georgia Tech News Room (Feb. 3, 2011) Cancer researchers have discovered that a type of regulatory RNA may be effective in fighting ovarian cancer. Ovarian cancer isn’t typically discovered until it’s in the advanced stages, where it is already spreading to other organs and is very difficult to fight with chemotherapy. This new discovery may allow physicians to turn back the clock of the tumor’s life cycle to a phase where traditional chemotherapy can better do its job. “Primary tumors are rarely fatal,” said John F. McDonald, director of the Integrated Cancer Research Center in Georgia Tech’s School of Biology and chief research scientist at the Ovarian Cancer Institute. “Most cancer patients succumb because the cancer metastasizes, and current chemotherapies are not designed to kill metastasizing cancer cells.” (full story..) |