Scientists at VCU Massey Cancer Center may have uncovered a primary method through which cancer cells exist undetected in an organism and received more than $1 million to investigate the potential for novel therapeutics that target and destroy cells in a specific state of tumor dormancy.
Scientists at VCU Massey Cancer Center may have uncovered a primary method through which cancer cells exist undetected in an organism and received more than $1 million to investigate the potential for novel therapeutics that target and destroy cells in a specific state of tumor dormancy.
Cancer cells often migrate from the organ in which they originated and hide in a state of inactivity elsewhere in the body. These cells can reactivate at anytime and pose a serious risk of recurrence and metastatic disease. The likelihood of curing cancer is greatly reduced once the disease has spread.
Tumor dormancy remains one of the greater mysteries in regard to the scientific understanding of cancer progression; identifying and killing inactive tumor cells persists as a prominent challenge in the field of cancer treatment.
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