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NEW - Why Your Heart Almost Never Gets Cancer: Dr. Samantha Yammine on a Stunning New Study
Heart cancer is so rare it shows up in less than 1% of autopsies. Cancer cells pass through the heart constantly. Dr. Samantha Yammine says scientists have finally found a clue about why it almost never takes hold there.
A study published in Science compared mouse hearts that could beat with hearts that could not. When both were injected with cancer cells, the non-beating hearts developed tumours readily. The beating hearts almost never did. Dr. Samantha Yammine says researchers also replicated the finding in heart cells grown in a dish: remove the calcium that makes them beat, add cancer…
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