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Research offers hope to Maori family with rare cancer

Posted by Karen Chelcun Schreiber On March - 20 - 2007

Ground-breaking University of Otago research has brought new hope that a rare, deadly hereditary cancer can be stopped without removing the stomachs of its victims.
It has also opened the door to treat the globally significant, non-genetic form of the disease, and the chance to test a theory that cancer grows from a detectable — and potentially beatable — stem cell.

Read the University of Otago, Department of BioChemistry article.

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