All About Skin Cancer

Researchers in the National Cancer Institute have discovered that a small molecule called nutlin-3A, a cancer suppressor gene has the ability to prevent cancer cells from dividing thus halting the spread of the disease. When cells divide the opportunity for mutation is high and this is what researchers are hoping to overcome with the new treatment. By preventing cells form dividing or taking the ability for them to do so, they hope to prevent the increase of the number of cancerous cells. They have also found that when the gene is activated, the cell can not only loose the ability to reproduce but even convince them to commit suicide due to the defective DNA within them thus preventing them from multiplying effectively controlling the spread of the disease.