Breast cancer spread triggered by a cleaver-wielding protein on cancer cell's surface
Monday, January 16, 2012 - 23:30
in Health & Medicine
Scientists have exposed a cell pathway that breast tumor cells use to destruct local tissue neighborhood. Cancer cells may use this pathway to free themselves from mammary epithelial tissue architecture, to spread to surrounding tissues. The cell pathway, the researchers found, is a biochemical chain of events leading to activation of a protein-cleaving enzyme on the surface of the tumor cells.