If Smoky Lungs Could Talk: A Telltale Pathway to Cancer (1 of 4) (IMAGE)

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If Smoky Lungs Could Talk: A Telltale Pathway to Cancer (1 of 4)

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Magnified view of single airway cells obtained by brushing. This image relates to an article that appeared in the April 7, 2010, issue of Science Translational Medicine. The study, by Dr. Adam Gustafson of Boston University Medical Center in Boston, and colleagues was titled, "Airway PI3K Pathway Activation Is an Early and Reversible Event in Lung Cancer Development."

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[Image courtesy of Avrum Spira]

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