Albany.ALBANY: A research team at Albany Medical College Albany Medical College (AMC) is a medical school located in Albany, New York, United States. It was founded in 1839. The college is part of the Albany Medical Center, which includes the Albany Medical Center Hospital. has developed a synthetic compound with the same biological characteristics as alpha-fetoprotein, a pregnancy-associated molecule believed to be responsible for reducing the risk of breast cancer. In recent laboratory tests, the synthetic peptide AFPep stopped the growth of human breast cancer cells cells once believed to be peculiar to cancers, but now know to be epithelial cells differing in no respect from those found elsewhere in the body, and distinguished only by peculiarity of location and grouping. See also: Cancer implanted in immune deficient mice. The compound also decreased the incidence of breast cancers in rats that had been injected with a chemical carcinogen carcinogen: see cancer. carcinogen Agent that can cause cancer. Exposure to one or more carcinogens, including certain chemicals, radiation, and certain viruses, can initiate cancer under conditions not completely understood. . Albany Med cautioned that the results are preliminary, but the findings were significant enough to be accepted for presentation Nov. 1 at the "Frontiers in Cancer Prevention Research" conference of the American Association for Cancer Research Wikipedia is not the place for advertisement or self-advertising. The American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) is an organization based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, that focuses on all aspects of cancer research including basic, clinical and translational in Baltimore. |
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