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One of the biggest challenges of cancer treatment – and cancer research – is working out how to block metastasis – the spread of cancer around the body.
In fact, most people who die of cancer die because the disease spreads to – and interferes with – other organs than the one in which the cancer originally started.
Many researchers around the world are trying to understand why and how cancer spreads, with the aim of finding ways to prevent it, or treat secondary tumours more effectively – and this research is beginning to bear fruit.
For example, earlier in the year we wrote about work by Dr Janine Erler and her team, who are studying how a protein called LOX is involved in metastasis.
Adding to the story, a recent paper by Cancer Research UK-funded scientists in Oxford sheds light on how cancers spread to the brain, challenging our current understanding of how this happens.
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In fact, most people who die of cancer die because the disease spreads to – and interferes with – other organs than the one in which the cancer originally started.
Many researchers around the world are trying to understand why and how cancer spreads, with the aim of finding ways to prevent it, or treat secondary tumours more effectively – and this research is beginning to bear fruit.
For example, earlier in the year we wrote about work by Dr Janine Erler and her team, who are studying how a protein called LOX is involved in metastasis.
Adding to the story, a recent paper by Cancer Research UK-funded scientists in Oxford sheds light on how cancers spread to the brain, challenging our current understanding of how this happens.
Full story Here ...
I wonder how long it will be before we can finally understand how cancer works and how to stop it 