A new study has revealed that common pain relief medication such as morphine can actually encourage the growth and spread of cancer cells.
Opiate-based painkillers have been shown to stimulate cancer growth. Two new studies have shown how shielding lung cancer cells from opiates reduce cell proliferation, invasion and migration in both cell-culture and mouse models.
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Common pain relief drugs promote cancer growth
November 23rd, 2009 |
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