Vitamin A pushes breast cancer to form blood vessel cells

Courtesy EurekAlert! - Medicine and Health  Mon, 07/14/2008 - 23:00

(Georgetown University Medical Center) Researchers at Georgetown University Medical Center have discovered that vitamin A, when applied to breast cancer cells, turns on genes that can push stem cells embedded in a tumor to morph into endothelial cells.

These cells can then build blood vessels to link up to the body's blood supply, promoting further tumor growth.


 

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