In the vast majority of patients with advanced cancer, their muscles will gradually waste away for reasons that have never been well understood. Now, researchers reporting in the August 20 issue of Cell, a Cell Press Publication, have found some new clues and a way to reverse that process in mice. What's more, animals with cancer that received the experimental treatment lived significantly longer, even as their tumors continued to grow.Learn about it.
"This is the first demonstration that muscle mass plays a key role in cancer survival," said H.Q. Han of Amgen Research.
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With Muscle-Building Treatment, Mice Live Longer Even As Tumors Grow
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