Study Shows How Normal Cells Influence Tumor Growth

Wednesday, October 21, 2009 - 14:07 in Health & Medicine

(PhysOrg.com) -- It was once thought that the two communities of cells within a cancerous breast tumor - fast-growing malignant cells and the normal cells that surround them - existed independently, without interaction. Then evidence emerged indicating that the normal-looking cells encouraged cells within the tumor to become malignant, but how the one community influenced the other wasn't known.

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