Researchers at the Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center (VICC) have provided the first evidence that blocking a cellular receptor can inhibit the development of pre-cancerous colon polyps in mice. The research suggests a new avenue for stopping or preventing colon cancer, which kills more than 50,000 Americans each year, said the paper’s senior author, Raymond N. DuBois, M.D., Ph.D., Hortense B. Ingram Professor of Molecular Oncology and the VICC’s associate director for Cancer Prevention and Control.
