Better armour in cervix cancer fight
(WorldNews Health)

Cancer of the uterine cervix, also known as cervical cancer, is the second leading cause of cancer deaths among women in India. Almost one lakh women fall victim to the insidious disease every year in the country. Hope in tumour antigen But there is hope. Researchers at the New Delhi-based National Institute of Immunology (NII) have now extracted a tumour antigen named SPAG9 that promises to be a highly potent weapon against this type of cancer. `The tumour antigen, which is expressed in reproductive...