N2CR members Associate Professor Alfredo Franco-Obregon and Dr. Alex Tai Yee Kit discovered that subjecting skeletal muscle to brief and non-invasive magnetic fields stimulated their secretion of anticancer factors. These muscle-derived factors inhibited the growth and spread of breast cancer and rivalled the potency of these same factors released from muscle in response to exercise. Their findings were deepened using a cancer model in chicken eggs and in cell-based assays and resulted in the identification of a potent anti-cancer agent. This discovery may open up new avenues for cancer treatment by leveraging on the body’s natural ability to defend itself against breast cancer, but with a minimum of stress and strain.

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