A study, conducted by UC Davis Comprehensive Cancer Center researchers, shows an alarming number of California women 65 and older are facing late-stage cervical cancer diagnoses and dying from the disease, despite guidelines that recommend most women stop screening for cervical cancer at this age.
Scientists have discovered tumors can tap a nontraditional pathway to acquire lipoproteins—molecules that transport fat in blood—which enriches cancer cells with an antioxidant shield to survive stress, according to new research from Children’s Medical Center Research Institute at UT Southwestern published in Nature.
