How Breast Cancer Cells Cause Brain Tumors
An article, by Nicole White, in ScienceDaily explains how breast cancer cells disguise themselves as neurons to cause brain tumors. This is a finding from the latest study at City of Hope, a major cancer-research centre in California.
White writes:
Breast cancer cells masquerade as neurons, allowing them to hide from the immune system, cross the blood-brain barrier and begin to form ultimately-deadly brain tumors, the researchers found. "The most dreaded location for cancer to spread is the brain," said Rahul Jandial, a City of Hope neurosurgeon who led the study, available online and slated for print publication in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences in February. "As we have become better at keeping cancer at bay with drugs such as Herceptin, women are fortunately living longer. In this hard-fought life extension, brain metastastes are being unmasked as the next battleground for extending the lives of women with breast cancer."
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Knowing how cancer cells operate, especially in how they disguise themselves can lead to innovative and effective ways to stop them dead in their nefarious schemes. Cancer is still a deadly disease, and in many ways it's both a war and a race against time.
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