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Research
Primary tumors can drive the growth of distant cancers
June 26th, 2008
Primary tumors can encourage the growth of stray cancer cells lurking elsewhere in the body that otherwise may not have amounted to much, according to a new study in the June 13 issue of the journal Cell, a publication of Cell Press. As people age, most may have such indolent cancer cells given the sheer number of cells in the body, although their rarity makes them impossible to detect, the researchers said. The primary tumors under study, which were derived from human breast cancers, seem to "instigate" the growth of other cancers by mobilizing bone marrow cells, which then feed the secondary tumors' growth, they report. One key to the process is...
Source: Women's Health Weekly (2008-06-26)
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