How Aging Normal Cells Fuel Tumor Growth and Metastasis
Thursday, June 14, 2012 - 16:30
in Health & Medicine
Researchers at the Kimmel Cancer Center at Jefferson have shown that senescence (aging cells which lose their ability to divide) and autophagy (self-eating or self-cannibalism) in the surrounding normal cells of a tumor are essentially two sides of the same coin, acting as "food" to fuel cancer cell growth and metastasis.