Maternal stress increases development of fetal neuroblastoma in animal model

22 Apr 2015


Researchers from Georgetown University Medical Center have shown in mice genetically predisposed to develop neuroblastoma that maternal stress can push onset of the cancer. Their study was presented at the American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) Annual Meeting 2015.

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