A group of international researchers just made a breakthrough in understanding what drives skin cancer growth, as well as how tumors are able to evade our immune system’s defenses.
Analyzing the tumors of more than 200 melanoma patients in the U.S., the team from New York, Mexico and Brazil found that a molecule that helps regulate gene activity – a key protein known as “HOXD13” – is crucial to the blood vessel growth that fuels melanoma tumor cells, pumping them with oxygen and nutrients.
