New MIT study identifies adhesion molecules key to cancer’s spread through the body.
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. –(ENEWSPF)–October 9, 2012. Although tumor metastasis causes about 90 percent of cancer deaths, the exact mechanism that allows cancer cells to spread from one part of the body to another is not well understood. One key question is how tumor cells detach from the structural elements that normally hold tissues in place, then reattach themselves in a new site.
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