Could painkillers cause cancer patients' tumors to grow?

"Last month, international experts huddled at M.D. Anderson Medical Center in Houston to discuss improving care for cancer patients, including the best ways to utilize opioids.

One of those experts was Dr. Jonathan Moss. He worked on a University of Chicago study that showed that human lung cancer cells with additional opioid receptors grow more than twice as fast as tumor cells without extra receptors when transplanted into mice. These lung cancer cells were also 20 times more likely to spread to distant sites."

Read the full article via the Clarion Ledger.