• Question: what type of cancer do you research into?

    Asked by mankybhagat to Jess on 23 Jun 2011.
    • Photo: Jessica Chu

      Jessica Chu answered on 23 Jun 2011:

      Hi mankybhagat..

      I am looking in at natural products in drug discovery!

      The cancer cell line panel that I am testing my plants against are from the epithelial layer (more about the epithelium here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epithelium).
      85% of cancers are known to arise from epithelial cells (form solid tumours) so it is really worth looking into especially as there are no super good treatment available for it yet!

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