Lung cancer: molecular advances

New discoveries in the treatment of lung cancer: the role of the Bcl-xL protein in the aging of neutrophils, the white blood cells that contribute to tumor development.

Neutrophils are white blood cells essential to our defense against bacterial infection. These cells patrol the body for 1 or 2 days, then die and are replaced by new neutrophils. In many cancers, their presence in large quantities in the blood or in the tumor is often associated with a poor prognosis, suggesting that these cells play a role in tumor development.

Researchers - including a team from Biopark Charleroi - have studied these neutrophils in the most deadly cancer in both men and women, lung cancer. ...