🔬 Science 4h ago · Anne Trafton, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Biologists Discover a Cellular Pathway That Helps Colorectal Cancer Spread

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Biologists Discover a Cellular Pathway That Helps Colorectal Cancer Spread
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Obesity may boost activity in a tissue repair pathway that helps colon cancer spread, offering a potential target for drugs to prevent metastasis. Most colon cancer deaths occur when tumor cells spread beyond the primary site to invade other organs, most frequently the liver followed by the lungs, in a process called metastasis. In the [...]

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