New Delhi, Nov 4 (IANS) Scientists have discovered one mechanism by which tobacco smoking causes cancer and makes it more difficult to treat by undermining the body’s anti-cancer safeguards, a new study has said. The study, published in the journal Science Advances, links tobacco smoking to harmful changes in DNA called ‘stop-gain mutations’ which tell the body to stop making certain proteins before they are fully formed. The scientists from the Canada-based Ontario Institute for Cancer Research (OICR) found that these stop-gain mutations were especially prevalent in genes known as “tumour-suppressors”, which make proteins that would normally prevent abnormal cells from growing. “Our study s
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