Tuesday, 18 December 2012

Patient Selection for Metastasis-directed Therapy Shows Improvement Thanks To Predictors of Cancer Disease Progression

Accounting for over 90% of cancer deaths is tumor metastasis, the ability of cancer cells to migrate from their tissue of origin and colonize elsewhere in the body. When patients die from cancer, it is usually caused by distant metastases established by malignant cells that split off from the primary cancer and began growing in new settings. Scientists from the Ludwig Center at the University of Chicago hypothesized over 15 years ago that an intermediate state ...

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