The Scientist : Following the cancer trail [5/9/2001]

Email: Tudor Toma - t.toma@ic.ac.uk
News from The Scientist 2001, 2(1):20010905-03

5 September 2001

Cancer cells can metastasize and invade other organs because they produce enzymes that destroy extracellular matrices. Until now the extracellular matrix was considered passive to the cancer attack. But in September 1 Cancer Research, Richard Seftor and colleagues from The University of Iowa show that highly aggressive melanoma cells leave a persistent molecular track in the extracellular matrix which can make less aggressive cancer cells much more aggressive.

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