Metastasis

Tumor growth follows same curve as animal growth

Published in Cancer Weekly, December 2nd, 2003

A universal law that describes the growth of animals also seems to describe the growth of tumors. Though the work is only in its early stages, researchers are already using it to explore the way cancers invade healthy tissue.

As an animal's mass increases, so does the number of cells within it. But the blood supply that feeds those cells grows more slowly. As a result, an increasing proportion of the available nutrients go toward maintaining existing cells rather than the growth of new ones, so the rate of growth slows and ultimately comes to a halt.

Two years ago, a team at Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico showed that when differences in...

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Source: Cancer Weekly (2003-12-02)

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