Metastasis

Being diagnosed with potentially fatal metastatic breast cancer inspired one man to gather a team of diverse professionals to create an AI-based tool to help oncologists provide an individualized treatment care plan to patients with metastatic cancer.

Researchers have developed an automated platform that they've used to screen thousands of drugs and identify those that can be used to interrupt the spread of melanoma. The approach could help identify promising drugs to treat metastatic cancers.

Researchers have identified the gene responsible for setting off a cellular chain reaction that causes prostate cancer to metastasize to the bone. The discovery could have significant implications for treating prostate and other cancers.

Researchers have found that a drug used to treat the symptoms of Parkinson’s disease may be effective at treating metastatic breast cancer and the brain metastases that can often result. The repurposed drug could be a novel cancer treatment.

Researchers have created the world’s first biobank of living tissue collected from patients with metastatic brain cancer, providing a means of research and drug testing, with the data collected available to the international scientific community.

Researchers have uncovered a protein that facilitates the spread of breast cancer cells into healthy tissue. The discovery improves our understanding of the metastatic process and is the first step to developing treatments that target this mechanism.

Researchers have found that antioxidants like vitamins C and E trigger a mechanism that stimulates the growth of new blood vessels in cancer tumors, helping them to grow and spread. They say it highlights the risk of taking unnecessary supplements.

Metastatic cancer accounts for up to 90% of all cancer deaths in the US annually. Now, researchers have trialed a first-of-its-kind monoclonal antibody drug that inhibits the process by which cancer cells spread, and results are promising.

Most people with breast cancer die not from the primary tumor but from metastasis, when the cancer spreads. Researchers have developed a compound that blocks the actions of a metastasis-causing protein, potentially reducing the spread of breast cancer.

Detecting circulating tumor cells among healthy blood cells is notoriously hard. Now an easy-to-use device can ID even a small number of cancer cells, potentially providing a huge breakthrough in non-invasive early detection, monitoring and treatment.

Scientists at Cambridge have identified a protein that plays a key role in cancer metastasis, which not only hints at a new potential treatment but reveals for the first time that this process isn’t unique to cancer, as previously thought.

A new study has turned up a new target in efforts to tackle metastatic cancers, the primary cause of death from the disease, by unearthing a protein that prevents cells from migrating to other parts of the body by sticking them to surrounding tissue.