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Chemotherapy Causes Cancer Growth, Discovered Accidently by Researchers

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A team of researchers looking into why cancer cells are so resilient accidentally stumbled upon a far more important discovery: chemotherapy heavily damages healthy cells, and triggers them to release a protein that sustains and fuels tumor growth. It also makes the tumor highly resistant to future treatment.
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Meryl Ann Butler is an artist, author, educator and OpedNews Managing Editor who has been actively engaged in utilizing the arts as stepping-stones toward joy-filled wellbeing since she was a hippie. She began writing for OpEdNews in Feb, 2004. She became a Senior Editor in August 2012 and Managing Editor in January, (more...)
 

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