Genetic errors can reduce cancer risks

A team of scientists at the University of California, San Diego say that they've determined that increasing genetic damage can help prevent cancer. Developing drugs that prevent the delivery of the right number of chromosomes to new cells offers a prime therapeutic target in cancer prevention. Mice with the wrong number of chromosomes were more susceptible to cancer, the scientists concluded. But by adding genetic errors they were able to slow the development of cancer.

- here's the report from the BBC

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