#Health #Smoking #Cancer
Scientists at the Ontario Institute for Cancer Research (OICR) have uncovered one way tobacco smoking causes cancer and makes it harder to treat by undermining the body's anti-cancer safeguards.
Their new study, published in Science Advances, links tobacco smoking to harmful changes in DNA called 'stop-gain mutations' that tell the body to stop making certain proteins before they are fully formed
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2023-11-cancer-fighting-proteins-cancer-harder.html
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