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(Georgetown University Medical Center) Researchers at Georgetown University Medical Center have found a gene they say is inactivated in two aggressive cancers — malignant melanoma, a form of skin cancer, and glioblastoma multiforme, a lethal brain tumor. They add that because this gene, known as PTPRD, has recently been found to be inactivated in several other cancers as well, their discovery suggests that PTPRD may play a tumor suppressor role in a wide variety of different cancers.

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