New cancer therapy holds potential to switch off major cancer types
> MTDH is important for most major human cancers, not important for normal cells, and it can be eliminated with no obvious side effects<p>I'm not fully buying that.<p>If you look at "Function" on Wikipedia, it seems to have some important roles, including angiogenesis (which is still important outside of cancer).  It's not like evolution would select for something that is useless outside of helping cancer.<p>I'd be curious what the side effects are in humans.   How can it be claimed that it can be eliminated with "no obvious side effects" when they are still years away from human trials?<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MTDH" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MTDH</a>