Friday 25 January 2013

Natural Switch Discovered That Controls Spread Of Breast Cancer Cells

With a desire to inhibit metastasis, Cornell biomedical engineers have found the natural switch between the body's inflammatory response and how malignant breast cancer cells use the bloodstream to spread.* Pro-inflammatory signaling molecules in blood called cytokines constitute a "switch" that induces the mechanism by which breast cancer cells "roll" and adhere to the blood vessel surface. The cancer cells eventually stick to the vessel and infiltrate it. The laboratory of Michael R... via Health News from Medical News Today Read More Here..

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