Natural healing
Body chemical for cancer cure
a protein molecule that ferries signals across nerve cells may now help alleviate breast and colon cancer. Researchers from Chittaranjan National Cancer Research Institute, Kolkata, and Mayo Clinic Cancer Center, Mayo Clinic, us, have found that dopamine, a neurotransmitter, inhibits growth of tumour cells, alone and in combination with anti-cancer drugs. Dopamine stops proliferation of cancer cells by disrupting the growth of tiny blood vessels that nourish the renegade cancer cells.
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