Out of the body and into bone-in culture: new technique tests drugs for metastatic cancer
For many cancer patients, the problem is metastasis – the dissemination of tumor cells to other organs – after the primary tumor has been eliminated.
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Metastasis
How breast cancer can become resistant to hormone therapy
Despite the overall success of hormone therapy, breast cancer tumors in patients with metastatic disease often fail to respond. One new mechanism that can explain
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Mouse model shows that Notch activation can drive metastatic prostate cancer
Nearly 200 thousand men are diagnosed with prostate cancer every year. Most of the deaths associated with prostate cancer occur in advanced stages of the
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