A study published a couple of years ago, for example, showed that «chronic stress restructures lymphatic networks within and around tumours to provide pathways for
tumour cell escape.»
When
a tumour cells escapes from the liver to travel towards the lung, it releases more PTHLH, thus further stimulating the process.
Not exact matches
The time needed for breast cancer metastases (secondary lesions caused by
cells that have
escaped from the original
tumour) to develop varies between patients, and little is known about the mechanisms that govern latency (the dormant state of
cells that have already spread through the body).
«Brain metastases are a secondary brain
tumour, which means they are caused by cancer
cells that
escape from primary
tumours like lung, breast or melanoma, and travel to the brain,» said Mohini Singh, the study's primary author and a PhD candidate in biochemistry at the Michael G. DeGroote School of Medicine at McMaster.
The first step is to understand how a small fraction of the
tumour cells often
escape therapy while becoming more malignant.