Tuesday, December 11, 2007

Improving Liver Cancer Diagnosis

Link:http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/10/071005104036.htm

Summary: The most common type of liver cancer is hepatocellular carcinoma. It causes about one million deaths each year. A lot of people die because the therapies are limited which causes scientists to look for proteins inside the body.

Questions:
What is the major role of this molecule in the cell? To identify the presence of liver cancer.

List three things you learned from this article in your own words.
1) PROTEINS ARE USED TO FIND THE DISEASE
2)PROTEINS ARE USED TO IMPROVE THE DIAGNOSIS
3)HEPATOCELLULAR CARCINOMA IS A TYPE OF CANCER
What impact would the absence of this molecule have on the cell? The disease would not be able to be identified .

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