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Common pain relief medication may encourage cancer growth

(University of Chicago Medical Center) Although morphine has been the gold-standard treatment for postoperative and chronic cancer pain for two centuries, a growing body of evidence is showing that opiate-based painkillers can stimulate the growth and spread of cancer cells. Two new studies advance that argument and demonstrate how shielding lung cancer cells from opiates reduces cell proliferation, invasion and migration in both cell-culture and mouse models.

source : www.eurekalert.org

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Submited at Wednesday, November 18th, 2009 at 1:00 pm on Cancer and Oncology by chuck
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