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Within our bodies, there is a delicate balance between cell growth and death. Damaged and worn-out cells die through apoptosis and are replaced, helping to keep us healthy.
But cancer cells escape death and multiply out of control, forming tumours.
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Latest Cell death (apoptosis) news from Cancer Research UK
- Press Release: Scientists use diabetes drug in double hit to starve cancer cells
28 August 2011 - News story: Cambridge scientists discover abnormal cell death mechanism works 'under normal conditions'
25 February 2011 - Press Release: Broken cell 'stopwatch' could lead to blood test to signal how fast leukaemia will progress
10 June 2010 - Press Release: Guardian of the genome's missing anti-cancer link uncovered
1 February 2009 - Press Release: Suicide gene therapy kills bowel cancer cells
17 May 2007 - Press Release: Controlling cancer's life/death choice
26 April 2004
- News story: Study suggests new way to attack resistant tumours
14 July 2011 - Press Release: DNA trick may be clue to cancer cells' eternal life
9 September 2010 - Press Release: Curry compounds kill oesophageal cancer cells in lab
28 October 2009 - Press Release: Early stage drug shows promise against cancer cells from young patients
2 October 2007 - Press Release: Scottish scientists test 'secret weapon' against tumours
8 March 2007 - Press Release: Scottish researchers discover how cancer cells cheat death
30 June 2003
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