Researchers at the University of Texas Health Science Center have unveiled a new study whereby regulating proteins outside breast cancer cells "can send signals to the cancer cells to permanently stop proliferating." Known as senescence, the process refers to cancer cells that either die or permanently stop proliferation upon successfully undergoing chemotherapy. While this discovery is a step in the right direction towards a therapeutic strategy to reprogram cancer cells to permanent dormancy, the researchers caution that observations were based on cell cultures; there are still many avenues to consider and test before this process can be applied to cancer therapy in humans.
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