Epigenetics. Potential for lung cancer treatment.

Lung Cancer. Radioactivity. Tobacco smoke. All these are covered in an very interesting article in the April 7th 2012 issue of the Economist - “Cancer and epigenetics: Cancer’s epicenter. New understanding of how cancers work is yielding new treatments”. It reports on a breakthrough discovery that many genes whose breakage leads to cancer are themselves involved in a specific sort of genetic regulation known as epigenetics. The article includes recent findings by researchers at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine (Baltimore) on the first instance of epigenetic drugs being used successfully against solid lung cancer tumors.

For more go to http://www.economist.com/node/21552168