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Simpler, High-Accuracy Method to Detect Rare Circulating Tumour Cells in Blood Samples

August 3, 2020
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Bethlehem, PA — Metastasis – the development of tumour growth at a secondary site – is responsible for the majority of cancer-related deaths. It occurs when the primary tumour site sheds...

Novel Function of Platelets in Tumour Blood Vessels Found

July 1, 2020
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Uppsala, Sweden — Scientists at Uppsala University have discovered a hitherto unknown function of blood platelets in cancer. In mouse models, these platelets have proved to help preserve the vascular...

First Evidence Inherited Genetics can Drive Cancer’s Spread, Study Reveals

May 26, 2020
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New York, NY — Sometimes cancer stays put, but often it metastasizes, spreading to new locations in the body. It has long been suspected that genetic mutations arising inside tumour cells drive this...

Study Reveals Breast Cancer Cells Shift Their Metabolic Strategy to Metastasize

March 9, 2020
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Irvine, CA — New discovery in breast cancer could lead to better strategies for preventing the spread of cancer cells to other organs in the body, effectively reducing mortality in breast cancer patients. According...

Protein AKAP8 Suppresses Breast Cancer Metastasis

January 28, 2020
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Houston, TX — A protein naturally produced in the body has been found to suppress breast cancer metastasis in animal models of human tumours. Researchers led by Baylor College of Medicine also found...

Activation of Distinct Genetic Pathway can Slow Progress of Metastatic Breast Cancer

January 20, 2020
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Melbourne, Australia — Metastasis, the spread of tumour cells to distant sites, is the major cause of death for people impacted by cancer. With no therapeutic cure available, it is clear that new treatments...

Two Cancer-Causing Genes Work Together to Promote Metastasis

January 16, 2020
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Stanford, CA — Cancer-promoting genes MYC and TWIST1 co-opt immune system cells to enable cancer cells to spread, but blocking a key step in this process can help prevent the disease from developing. These...

Scientists Identify Protein that Promotes Brain Metastasis

November 5, 2019
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New York, NY — A protein that breast, lung and other cancers use to promote their spread–or metastasis–to the brain, has been identified by a team led by Weill Cornell Medicine and New...

Preventing Tumour Metastasis

August 22, 2019
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Villigen, Switzerland — Researchers at the Paul Scherrer Institute, together with colleagues from the pharmaceutical company F. Hoffmann-La Roche AG, have taken an important step towards the development...

Biomarker may Help Identify Men with Prostate Cancer at Greater Risk of Tumour Metastasis

May 9, 2019
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Philadelphia, PA — For about 90 percent of men with prostate cancer, the cancer remains localized to the primary site, resulting in a five-year survival rate of almost 100 percent. Unfortunately, the...

Researchers Target Metastasis in Fight Against Cancer

March 28, 2019
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Alberta, Canada — An experimental combination drug therapy attacking the DNA integrity of cancer cells is showing promise for a possible new cancer therapy in the future. Scientists at the University...

Breast Cancer Cells Rely on Pyruvate to Expand in New Tissues

March 4, 2019
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Leuven, Belgium — Most patients who die of breast cancer die of metastasis, the process by which cancer cells spread to other organs of the body. Cancer cells alter their metabolism to grow and expand...

Researchers Develop Sensors to Detect and Measure Cancer’s Ability to Spread

December 6, 2018
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La Jolla, CA — The spread of invasive cancer cells from a tumour’s original site to distant parts of the body is known as metastasis. It is the leading cause of death in people with cancer. In...

Study Discovers New Molecular Mechanism Likely Involved in Cancer Metastasis

May 8, 2018
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Baltimore, MD — Scientists knew the PDK1 signaling pathway was active in metastasizing cancer cells, but no one knew why. New research has identified a critical function of the PDK1 pathway, creating...

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