Squeeze breasts to fight cancer, study says
New therapies for breast cancer could come from findings that manually squeezing malignant mammary cells can stop out-of-control growth.
Researchers at the UC Berkeley and the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory have found for the first time that mechanical forces alone can revert and stop the growth of breast cancer cells. The cessation of growth can happen even though the genetic mutation causing the malignancy remains, creating a nature-versus-nurture battle in determining a cell’s future.
