Researchers Think Cancer's Own Byproducts Could Help Kill If Off

The process involves carbon monoxide and some clever “shielding”.

In the UK, about 400,000 new cancer cases are diagnosed each year.

Though there are over 100 different forms of the disease, they all follow the same rough pattern: cells begin to grow uncontrollably and start to appear in parts of the body where they don’t belong.

This multiplication of cells can sometimes lead to a tumour, or a mass, which may spread.

Researchers have long sought a way to stop this process. And in a new paper published in Nature, some suggest that a chemical byproduct of cancerous cells themselves could help to do so from within tumours.

Carbon monoxide could play a role here

You’ve probably heard carbon monoxide (an odourless, invisible gas) described as a “silent killer” because it........

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