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CSHL scientists identify cells that promote formation of lethal lung metastases
01-10-2008 · EurekAlert!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 of a type of cell that regulates the transformation of small, dormant lung metastases into large, aggressive metastases -- the kind that kill cancer patients.
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