In the UK, about 400,000 new cancer cases are diagnosed each year.
Though there are over 100 different forms of the disease, they all follow the same rough pattern: cells begin to grow uncontrollably and start to appear in parts of the body where they don’t belong.
This multiplication of cells can sometimes lead to a tumour, or a mass, which may spread.
Researchers have long sought a way to stop this process. And in a new paper published in Nature, some suggest that a chemical byproduct of cancerous cells themselves coul...


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