Copper promotes tumor growth

Keith Weller, USDA ARS [Public domain] via Wikimedia Commons
New study results from researchers at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne (Switzerland) suggest that copper is essential for energy production in malignant cells and that reducing levels of bioavailable copper can slow tumor growth in mice.

Lab Anim. (NY) 43, 6 (2014).
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