Bar-Ilan University scientists seek to prevent cancer spread
An estimated ninety percent of deaths from breast cancer are due to
complications resulting from metastasis, a process in which cancer cells break away from where they first formed, travel through the blood or lymph circulatory system, and form new, metastatic tumors in other parts of the body. Until now, there has been no effective treatment to block this process. Researchers at Bar-Ilan University have identified the protein interaction that causes the cancer spread, and developed a peptide that was shown to be 90 percent effective in preventing metastasis in mice. The scientists who…
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