Micro-RNA determines malignancy of lung cancer
Wednesday, September 8, 2010 - 10:28
in Health & Medicine
A small RNA molecule determines whether or not lung cancer cells grow invasively and metastasize, according to researchers in Germany. Moreover, they found out that the following is true also for patients with non-small cell lung cancer: The less micro-RNA is produced by tumor cells, the higher the tumor's tendency to metastasize.