Diet can shut off cancer genes


	Diet can shut off cancer genes

Lexica

6-17-2008 4:58 PM

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cancer, health, research, medicine, science, genetics, nutrition

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"The findings could be particularly helpful for older patients whose prostate cancer shows up in a screening and could benefit from a less invasive intervention, such as lifestyle change, said biostatistician Ruth Etzioni of the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center in Seattle."

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