Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Scientists Identify Cells That Promote Formation of Lethal Lung Metastases

Cold Spring Harbor, NY – Cancer patients usually ask what can be done after a primary tumor has already spread, or metastasized, to other organs. In many cases, they learn, little can be done. Hence the importance of a discovery by scientists at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL) of a type of cell that regulates the transformation of small, dormant lung metastases into large, aggressive metastases – the kind that kill cancer patients. Read full article below.

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