Cancer-Derived Blood Vessels- Feeding Their Way To Host Destruction

Tuesday, February 15, 2011 - 21:00 in Health & Medicine

Cancer can be described as a cellular disease, which is thought to arise from misbehaving cells that divide uncontrollably in vivo. Our basic understanding of why this occurs is because these “cancer cells” have lost its ability to respond appropriately to endogenous stop signals that normally work to maintain the structural integrity of normal tissues. The resulting uncontrolled cell division results in the formation of a tumor. read more

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