Based
on the pioneering work of Dr. Claire Lugassy and Dr. Raymond Barnhill at UCLA's Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center, a new study provides additional support for a process by which melanoma cells, a deadly form of skin cancer, can spread
throughout the
body by creeping like tiny spiders along the outside of
blood vessels without ever entering the
blood stream, and that this process is exacerbated by exposure to ultraviolet (UV) light.