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Article: Cancer cells caught in the (metastatic) act. (video images of cancer cells in blood vessels)
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- Science News
- Article date:
- May 22, 1993
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Despite thorough surgical excisions and ever more sophisticated radiation and drug treatments, some cancer cells manage to get away from physicians trying to destroy them. Tumor cells that escape capture or destruction can spread to other parts of the body and start cancer anew.
Now, scientists have caught this process, called metastasis, on videotape. The images call into question theories about why refugee cancer cells settle where they do, and they offer researchers a new way to study potential treatments, says Ann F. Chambers, an experimental oncologist at the London (Ontario) Regional Cancer Center.
Most scientists study metastasis by injecting ...