Johns Hopkins Medicine: How Hypoxia Helps Cancer Spread
November 07, 2024
November 07, 2024
BALTIMORE, Maryland, Nov. 7 (TNSres) -- Johns Hopkins Medicine issued the following news release:
Scientists at the Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center have identified 16 genes that breast cancer cells use to survive in the bloodstream after they've escaped the low-oxygen regions of a tumor. Each is a potential therapeutic target to stop cancer recurrence, and one - MUC1 - is already in clinical trials.
The research was published online September 28 in the journal Nature . . .
Scientists at the Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center have identified 16 genes that breast cancer cells use to survive in the bloodstream after they've escaped the low-oxygen regions of a tumor. Each is a potential therapeutic target to stop cancer recurrence, and one - MUC1 - is already in clinical trials.
The research was published online September 28 in the journal Nature . . .