'Microtentacles' on tumour cells appear to play role in how breast cancer spreads

Saturday, March 20, 2010 - 08:07 in Health & Medicine

Researchers at the University of Maryland Marlene and Stewart Greenebaum Cancer Centre have discovered that 'microtentacles,' or extensions of the plasma membrane of breast cancer cells, appear to play a key role in how cancers spread to distant locations in the body. Targeting these microtentacles might prove to be a new way to prevent or slow the growth of these secondary cancers, the scientists say...

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