Primary Tumors Can Drive The Growth Of Distant Cancers
Thursday, June 12, 2008 - 12:35
in Health & Medicine
Primary tumors can encourage the growth of stray cancer cells lurking elsewhere in the body that otherwise may not have amounted to much. As people age, most may have such indolent cancer cells given the sheer number of cells in the body, although their rarity makes them impossible to detect, the researchers said.