Blocking the critical structure that lets cancer cells move - their feet

Scientists now know that some cancer cells spread, or metastasise, throughout the body the old-fashioned way - by using their feet. But researchers at Duke Cancer Institute have discovered a way to short-circuit their travels by preventing the development of these feet, called invadopodia. This discovery is even more important because preventing the development of these 'feet' also eliminates the action of proteins present in the feet that burn through intact tissue and let cancer cells enter new cells...

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