UV light accelerates cancer cells that creep along outside of blood vessels
Friday, March 7, 2014 - 15:00
in Health & Medicine
Deadly skin cancer (melanoma) cells spread by creeping along the outside of blood vessels: extravascular metastatic migration (EVMM). Ultraviolet light exposure accelerates EVMM in a mouse model, new research has found. Now researchers are targeting new drugs that slow or stop EVMM, potentially reducing the death rate from melanoma.