Cancer theory faces doubts

• Published in: Nature (London) Vol. 472; no. 7343; p. 273
• Main Author: Ledford, Heidi
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: London Nature Publishing Group UK 21.04.2011; Nature Publishing Group
• Subjects: 631/80/84; 692/699/67/322; Animals; Biomedical research; Cancer; Cancer metastasis; Cancer therapies; Cell differentiation; Cell Movement; Cells, Cultured; Development and progression; Epithelial-Mesenchymal Transition; Health aspects; Humanities and Social Sciences; Humans; Medical research; Mice; Models, Biological; multidisciplinary; Neoplasm Metastasis - pathology; Neoplasms - pathology; news; Proteins; Reproducibility of Results; Science; Science (multidisciplinary); United States

OSI Pharmaceuticals, based in Melville, New York, is already pursuing EMT inhibitors as possible cancer treatments, as are several academic labs. "EMT is really becoming a popular subject," says Shoukat Dedhar, a cancer researcher at the British Columbia Cancer Research Centre in Vancouver...