
Why do the majority of people never get cancer?
News Type: Opinion — Seeded on Thu Jan 22, 2009 11:34 AM EST
Article Source: PhysOrg.comGeorge Klein, Professor Emeritus at the Microbiology and Tumor Biology Center at the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm, Sweden, has been teaching and researching since the mid-1940s. In a recent study called "Toward a genetics of cancer resistance" published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Klein highlights evidence of several biological cancer resistance mechanisms that some individuals have that seem to prevent them from developing cancer. Perhaps, Klein says, there are cancer-resistant genotypes that "nip cancer in the bud" and keep most of us healthy.
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