DTN 134: A powerful new way to prevent cancer

“In the past few years scientists have been finding something surprising—so-called cancer-driver mutations are also common in healthy tissue…When a person is middle aged more than half the surface of the oesophagus and nearly 10% of the lining of the stomach is covered by cells with cancer-driver mutations…It seems that cells with faulty DNA can be prevented from growing into full-blown cancers through the activity of healthy cells around them with beneficial mutations in their DNA. Encouraging those healthy cells to grow could become an effective strategy for stopping cancer…These discoveries suggest that new cancer-preventing drugs might help the body better limit the harm done by its own immune system.”