Protein discovered that spreads cancer

Posted by on April 13, 2016 12:47 pm
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Aggressive cancer cells spread from a tumor to another part of the body through the blood vessel. To be able get in and out of the blood vessel, the cancer cell needs to penetrate tissue Researchers have discovered a protein that the cancer cell uses like scissors to cut up tissue, so it can spread from a tumor to a new organ.

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