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Cardiac Hormones and Cancer

Here's an excerpt from an article on the American Physiological Society's website . It's very exciting and might indicate a huge step forward in the fight against cancer. In fact it's so impressive that I find myself having trouble believing it--but the source of the news is very credible and the researcher is a good one. In any case, Dr Vesely will present his research at a symposium April 9 at the Experimental Biology 2008 conference in San Diego. According to researcher David Vesely , a doctor at the James A. Haley Veterans Hospital in Tampa and a professor at the University of South Florida (USF), hormones produced by the heart eliminated human pancreatic cancer in more than three-quarters of the mice treated with the hormones and eliminated human breast cancer in two-thirds of the mice. Vesely is the hospital’s chief of endocrinology, diabetes and metabolism and is also professor of medicine, molecular pharmacology and physiology at USF. Using colon, ovarian, breas...