Belfast scientists make major cancer treatment breakthrough

Queen’s University team could develop new therapies to fight cancer

PATRICK COUNIHAN,

IrishCentral Staff Writer

Published Thursday, August 9, 2012, 7:29 AM

Updated Thursday, August 9, 2012, 10:33 AM

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Research team leader Professor Dennis McCance

Photo by Queens University

“By specifically targeting pathways controlled by the Rb protein, it would be possible to switch off the messages that encourage cancer cells to invade, and inhibit the spread of the tumour.

“Our research has focused on cancers of the throat and cervix. But it is possible that Rb or other proteins in the healthy tissue surrounding other types of cancer, may play a similar role in regulating the spread of tumour cells.

“Therefore, the implications of this discovery could go far beyond throat and cervical cancer, and that is something we plan to investigate further.”

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hybernia | Aug 09, 2012, 03:12 PM EDT

I often wonder if they found a cure for all types of cancer, would they tell and kill the goose that lays their golden eggs???

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Curitiba | Aug 09, 2012, 01:42 PM EDT

That's great, but I bet they haven't thought about how they are going to pay the pensions of those perfectly healthy 65-95 year-olds who nobody wants to employ. Also, more older people means more Alzheimer's, which mean that the hospitals are going to be full of people who have the physical health of a 35-year-old, but who are completely unable to look after themselves.

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rebel999 | Aug 09, 2012, 09:47 AM EDT

Proteins play a very important role in our bodies. Our body needs 21 different amino acids to make the different proteins that are body uses to make the cells of our bodies. Our body's manufacture 11 of those amino and we get 9 amino acids from our food. However modern day diets leave out some of those amino acids in our bodies. But there is one food and only one food that has all of the 9 amino acids and that is the soy bean. I advise EVERYONE if they can to eat a handfull of soybeans

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