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Daily Mirror
Daily Mirror
Miriam Stoppard

'Cambridge researchers discover how cancer spreads and look for drugs to stop it'

How cancer spreads remains a mystery. Just how and why do cancer cells set off around the body to produce seedlings of cancer that grow into “secondaries” or metastases? What enables cancer cells to travel?

Through some amazing research, Cambridge scientists have revealed the answer. Cancer cells literally hijack a mechanism used by healthy cells to move around the body.

This stunning work completely changes the way we think about how the disease spreads.

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