Friday, 12 April 2013

Signature of circulating breast tumor cells that spread to the brain found

Some breast tumor circulating cells in the bloodstream are marked by a constellation of biomarkers that identify them as those destined to seed the brain with a deadly spread of cancer, said researchers led by those at Baylor College of Medicine in a report that appears online in the journal Science Translational Medicine. Read more here.

Study mentioned: Zhang L, et al. The Identification and Characterization of Breast Cancer CTCs Competent for Brain Metastasis. Sci Transl Med. 2013 Apr 10;5(180):180ra48. PMID: 23576814

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