An Unholy Alliance--Colon Cancer Cells in situ Co-Opt Fibroblasts in Surrounding Tissue to Break Out
Friday, December 5, 2014 - 11:00
in Health & Medicine
In work to be presented at the ASCB/IFCB meeting in Philadelphia, researchers from the Institut Curie in Paris report that they have evidence of a coordinated attack on the basement membrane of human colon cells by cancer cells in situ and CAF cells in the extracellular matrix that begins long before the actual translocation of cancer cells.