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Article: Calorie restriction may curb skin cancer development
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- Xinhua News Agency
- Article date:
- April 14, 2008
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Calorie restriction may curb skin cancer development
WASHINGTON, April 14 (Xinhua) -- A restricted-calorie diet
inhibited the development of pre-cancerous growths in a mouse model
of skin cancer, reducing the activation of two signaling pathways
known to contribute to cancer growth and development, a new study by
U.S. researchers has shown.
An obesity-inducing diet, by contrast, activated those pathways,
a research team from the University of Texas' Anderson Cancer Center
reported at the American Association for Cancer Research annual
meeting Monday.
"These results, while tested in a mouse model of skin cancer, are
broadly applicable to epithelial cancers in other tissues," said the ...
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