Research Probes How Pancreatic Cancers Metastasize

Researchers have discovered that a protein found in the cells surrounding pancreatic cancers play a role in the spread of the disease to other parts of the body. In a finding to be published in the March 25 issue of iOncogene/i, researchers at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, found that the protein palladin enhances the ability of cancer-associated fibroblasts (CAFs) to assemble organelles known as invadopodia to break down the barriers between ...

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