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Article: Spreading Cancer Survives Via Signals From Nearby Blood Vessels Long Before New Vessels Are Grown.
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- AScribe Medicine News Service
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- December 18, 2003
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Byline: Duke University
DURHAM, N.C., Dec. 19 (AScribe Newswire) -- In one of the clearest models of cancer metastasis, scientists have shown that spreading cancer cells receive growth-sustaining signals from nearby blood vessels telling them where to go for permanent nourishment and oxygen.
These signals actually protect the fledgling cancer cells long before new blood vessels have grown around the cancer to supply it with a more permanent source of nutrients and oxygen, said the researchers from the Duke Comprehensive Cancer Center.
Their results will be published in the Dec. 19, 2003, issue of the Federation of American Societies for ...