How cancer cells travel to new tissues and take hold

How cancer cells travel to new tissues and take hold

(Knowable Magazine) – Understanding these astonishing migrations through the human body, known as metastases, could suggest novel treatments The answers are urgent, because the same thing that happened to Boire’s patient is happening to increasing numbers of cancer patients. As the ability to treat initial, or primary, tumors has improved, people survive early rounds with cancer only to come back years or decades later when the cancer has someho…