Scientists Discover How Cancer Cells ‘Hijack’ Cells and Spread Around the Body

Scientists Discover How Cancer Cells ‘Hijack’ Cells and Spread Around the Body
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Many patients with cancers die as a result of metastasis, a process whereby the cancer spreads from the primary organ to other organs around the body.

“These findings are among the most important to have come out of my lab for three decades,” said Richard Gilbertson, one of the leading researchers of a recent study and the director of the Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute.