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.