Researchers Discover New Information On Spreading Of Cancer
Sunday, July 5, 2009 - 00:21
in Health & Medicine
Researchers have discovered a mechanism lung cancer cells use when spreading into the body to form metastases. They have also found a factor controlling the spreading of several different cancer types. The common feature in both findings is that they explain the lethal ability of cancer cells to “start running” and spread from the original tumor to other parts of the body.
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