Baylor College of Medicine: Resistance to Immunosurveillance Favors Cluster Cancer Metastasis
June 01, 2020
June 01, 2020
HOUSTON, Texas, June 1 -- The Baylor College of Medicine issued the following news release:
Scientific evidence suggests that cancer can metastasize to other organs when either a single cell or a cluster of cells detaches from the original tumor and travels through the blood to another location, where it grows into a new tumor. Clusters seem to have a higher metastatic potential than single cells, and a report published in Nature Cancer (https://www.nature.com/articles/s43018-020-00 . . .
Scientific evidence suggests that cancer can metastasize to other organs when either a single cell or a cluster of cells detaches from the original tumor and travels through the blood to another location, where it grows into a new tumor. Clusters seem to have a higher metastatic potential than single cells, and a report published in Nature Cancer (https://www.nature.com/articles/s43018-020-00 . . .