UCSF Research Suggests New Model for Cancer Metastasis (UCSF Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center)

Scientists at UC San Francisco have been able to directly observe, for the first time, how invasive cancer cells create a beachhead as they migrate to the lung in a mouse model of metastatic cancer. What they saw was utterly surprising: early 'pioneer' cancer cells that lodge in the lung generally die, but first they shed zombie-like particles that move around on their own and get gobbled up by waves of immune cells. Many of these immune cells, as if infected by the cancer particles, then burrow...
Source: National Comprehensive Cancer Network - Category: Cancer & Oncology Source Type: news