Metastasis
Cancer biologists and a cardiologist take a new look at aggressive tumors
Published in Cancer Weekly, September 23rd, 2003
An unusual collaboration between a University of Iowa (UI) cardiologist and cancer biologists at the Holden Comprehensive Cancer Center at UI, the Scripps Research Institute in California, and Kanagawa Cancer Center Hospital and Research Center in Japan utilized a multidisciplinary approach to learn more about how aggressive cancer cells function and how they differ from poorly aggressive cancer cells.
The study, which appeared in the September 1, 2003, issue of Cancer Research, may also suggest potential new therapeutic targets for cancer treatment.
Previous studies have found that aggressive tumor cells express genes that are more normally...
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