Peptide Stops Lung Tumor Growth In Mice

WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. -- U.S. medical scientists say they have developed a treatment that is effective in blocking the growth of lung cancer tumors in mice. Wake Forest University School of Medicine researchers said their treatment using a specific peptide reduced tumor growth by inhibiting blood vessel formation and also shrunk the size of the tumors. "If you're diagnosed with lung cancer today, you've got a 15 percent chance of surviving five years -- and that's just devastating," said co-lead investigator Patricia Gallagher, director of the school's Molecular Biology Core Laboratory. "Those other 85 people -- 85 percent -- they're not going to see their kids graduate. They're not going to see their children get marrie...