Source: Curie Institute
Date: May 18, 2007
Summary:
Inserm researchers at the Institut Curie have identified the cells that cause Ewing's sarcoma. They are cells of the mesenchyme, the connective tissue that supports other tissues. The Institut Curie is the reference center in France for Ewing's sarcoma, a bone tumor of children, adolescents, and young adults. The researchers have also succeeded "to make" the tumor cells to become virtually normal mesenchymal cells again. These results, published in Cancer Cell on 7 May 2007, open up new therapeutic possibilities for blocking the development of Ewing's sarcoma in young patients.
