Study reveals how melanoma spreads
Wednesday, February 8, 2017 - 15:31
in Biology & Nature
Newly identified genes and genetic pathways in primary melanoma -- a type of skin cancer -- could give researchers new targets for developing new personalized treatments for melanoma, and potentially other cancers. Learning how the genes are expressed (turned on or off) could be used in the future to predict how and when the cancer cells will spread to other parts of the body and how fast they will grow.