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  • Researchers may have found a cancer cell's 'off' switch

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    Andrew Tarantola
    Andrew Tarantola
    08.25.2015

    Aside from their abnormal growth rates, cancerous cells aren't that much different from normal healthy tissue. That's why radiation and chemo treatments can't effectively target just tumors. However, a team of researchers from the Mayo Clinic believe they've discovered a mechanism that can rein in cancer's uninhibited growth by retraining these wayward cells to die like they're supposed to.