Comment from Professor Nick Lemoine, Director of Imperial Cancer Research Fund's Molecular Oncology Unit at the Hammersmith Hospital, in response to US research* that has linked breast cancer to a virus:August 11, 1999Comment from Professor Nick Lemoine, Director of Imperial Cancer Research Fund's Molecular Oncology Unit at the Hammersmith Hospital, in response to US research* that has linked breast cancer to a virus: Professor Lemoine said: "It is a fascinating observation and it will be interesting to see whether these results are reproduced in European populations. "However, the production of a vaccine to prevent the virus triggering breast cancer would depend on the virus expressing its products exclusively in breast cancer cells." Dr Alan Storey, expert in cancer-causing viruses at Imperial Cancer Research Fund, added: "This is potentially a very important finding and it is likely to provoke much more research. Establishing the role of the virus in the development of breast cancer should enable new strategies of intervention to be developed." ENDS Southampton, University of |
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