If we are to finally stop people dying from breast cancer, we need to find ways to prevent the disease
from spreading around the body, where it becomes incurable.
«Mosquito bites are not just annoying — they are key for how these
viruses spread around your body and cause disease,» said Dr Clive McKimmie, a research fellow at the School of Medicine and senior author of the study.
As a result, a person's gut is unable to nourish the body properly; instead it produces large amounts of toxins that absorb into the bloodstream,
get spread around the body, and cause disease.
Researchers have identified a protein that controls how breast cancer
cells spread around the body, according to a Cancer Research UK - funded study published in Science Signaling.
This protects other kids (and adults) and keeps your child from scratching the bumps and
spreading them around his body.
«If cancer stays in a tumor in one place, you can get to it, and it's not so likely to kill the patient, but when
it spreads around the body, that's what really makes it deadly,» said lead researcher Mostafa El - Sayed, Julius Brown Chair and Regents Professor at Georgia Tech's School of Chemistry and Biochemistry.
The real problem is when
it spreads around the body.
Women can live for years with breast cancer that has begun to
spread around the body — but the exception is spread to the brain, which usually indicates a woman is in her last few months of life.
A key question in cancer research has been how cancer cells are able to survive once they break away from a tumour to
spread around the body.
Cancer cells appear to depend on an unusual survival mechanism to
spread around the body, according to an early study led by Queen Mary University of London (QMUL).
SLex is also found on the surface of lung cancer cells and colon cancer cells, which are also seeking E-selectin sites to attach themselves to as
they spread around the body.
The study led by UCL researchers and published today in the Journal of Cell Biology, used embryonic cells to investigate how groups of cells move in a developmental process similar to that used by cancer to
spread around the body.
Professor Peter Johnson, chief clinician at Cancer Research UK, said: «The thing we fear most about cancer is how it can
spread around the body — this is what causes 90 per cent of all cancer deaths.
The study, led by the University of Leeds, found that inflammation where the insect has bitten not only helps a virus such as Zika or dengue establish an infection in the body more quickly, but that it also helps it to
spread around the body, increasing the likelihood of severe illness.
A tumour is an abnormal growth, which can be cancerous (having the potential to
spread around the body) or benign (the growth remains in a single spot but may continue to grow in size).
If the bad bacteria overwhelms the friendly bacteria, the maldigested food particles and fungus start to
spread around the body.
Most of them are water proof, so they won't wash off once they have had a chance to
spread around the body.
These are the ones that will
spread around the body to different tissues.»
«This protein is incredibly important in how cancers survive and
spread around the body.