Cancer Flip-Flop: Gene acts in both proliferation and control of growth

Decades ago, cancer geneticists latched on to an attractively simple model in which only two types of genes control the disease’s spread: Oncogenes trigger cancers and their growth, but tumor-suppressor genes keep cancer cells in check.

Now, Patrick Mehlen of the University of Lyon in Villeurbanne, France, and his colleagues describe, in the Sept.