Saturday, July 13, 2013

Key Role Of Nerves In Tumor Growth Offers New Therapeutic Target

Nerve Growth Stimulates Prostate Cancer by Heidi Ledford.  Nature.  July 11, 2013.

(1)  While this article deals with the role of nerves in prostate cancer growth, there could be implications for all _____________.

(2)  Beta-blocker drugs are use to treat ______________________.  What could be a possible reason that epidemiological studies show that people taking beta blockers tend fare better in cancer treatment?

(3)  Growth of _______________ in and around prostate cancer spurs tumor cells to grow and invade other issues.

(4)  While this study was performed in __________ an analysis of 43 patients with prostate cancer found that nerve _____________________.

(5)  Previous research has shown that cancer cells sometimes ________________.

(6)  There is a theory that the body perceives cancer and its attendant tissue damage and inflammation as a ___________________.   Since nerve growth plays a role in wound repair, nerve growth may also play ___________________.


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