Tumors Use Sugars To Avoid Programmed Cell Death

Courtesy ScienceDaily Thu, 04/17/2008 - 04:00

Researchers have apparently solved the riddle of why cancer cells like sugar so much, and it may be a mechanism that could lead to better cancer treatments.

They have found that tumor cells use glucose sugar as a way to avoid programmed cell death.

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