Anti-cancer Agent Stops Metastasis in its Tracks

Wednesday, April 14, 2010 - 16:42 in Health & Medicine

(PhysOrg.com) -- Like microscopic inchworms, cancer cells slink away from tumors to travel and settle elsewhere in the body. Now, researchers at Weill Cornell Medical College report in today`s online edition of the journal Nature that new anti-cancer agents break down the looping gait these cells use to migrate, stopping them in their tracks.

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