Only 5 percent of cancer research funds are spent on metastases, yet it kills 90 percent of all cancer patients
Tuesday, June 1, 2010 - 11:51
in Health & Medicine
On average, about five percent of total cancer research funding is spent on investigating metastases (the spread of cancer cells around the body) in Europe, yet metastatic disease is the direct or indirect cause of 90 percent of all cancer deaths, according to an editorial in the European Journal of Cancer (EJC).