Resolving debate about how tumors spread

Thursday, November 29, 2012 - 18:30 in Health & Medicine

Scientists have shown for the first time how cancer cells control the ON/OFF switch of a program used by developing embryos to effectively metastasize in vivo, breaking free and spreading to other parts of the body, where they can proliferate and grow into secondary tumors.

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