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But the Wall Street Journal says there is still no evidence to confirm conservative theorists' suspicions of a conspiracy between Chinese intelligence agents, the Lippo Group, and John Huang.
Chemoprevention has been defined as the use of noncytotoxic nutrients or pharmacologic agents to enhance intrinsic physiologic mechanisms that protect the organism against the development of mutant clones and their progression to malignant cancer [ 27].
Studies have shown BRCA1 is upregulated in cells treated by DNA damaging agents such as cisplatinum [ 4 ] . BRCA1 has been shown to interact with DNA repair proteins such as Rad50 and Rad51, the tumor suppressor genes RB and BRCA2, transcriptional factors (RNA pol II, histone deacetylase complex, ctIP) as well as influence numerous cyclins and cyclin dependent kinases contributing to cell cycle regulation [ 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 ] . More recently, BRCA1 has been shown to influence apoptosis in a p53 independent manner [ 13 ] . This apoptotic response involved the c-jun kinase (JNK) pathway, though the details of this mechanism remain unclear [ 14 ] .
The NSAID sulindac has been shown to cause regression of colorectal adenomas of patients with hereditary forms of polyposis (Familial Adenomatous Polyposis (FAP) and Gardner's Syndrome) [ 17 18 19 ] and in sporadic colorectal adenomas [ 20 ] . In addition, case reports have demonstrated that indomethacin and sulindac were effective co-therapy agents in the treatment of desmoid tumours [ 21 22 ] . Finally, the inclusion either of indomethacin, naproxen or sulindac in the chemotherapy regiment of gastric carcinoma patients resulted in a significant increase in survival; 30 months versus 6 months when NSAIDs included in treatment regime [ 22 ] .
An aside halfway through the piece likens FBI agents, scanning the Internet for hacker assaults and political extremists, to "ancients searching the skies for a sign."
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