Breast cancer cells spread during sleep

A new study offers a surprising finding about breast cancer: circulating cells that later form metastases mainly arise when a person is sleeping.

Vanessa Bleich-ETH Zurich • futurity
June 22, 2022 ~5 min

‘Hot spots’ may improve breast cancer mapping

A new technique that clarifies what breast cancer cells "feel" inside a tumor could lead to better ways to detect and map aggressive disease.

Katherine Gombay-McGill • futurity
Nov. 3, 2020 ~4 min


Genes may help predict prostate cancer metastasis risk

Newly-discovered biomarkers can predict the probability that someone with prostate cancer will develop metastasis, including to the bone, researchers report.

Maud Alobawone-Rutgers • futurity
Oct. 21, 2020 ~4 min

Genes may help predict prostate cancer metastasis risk

Newly-discovered biomarkers can predict the probability that someone with prostate cancer will develop metastasis, including to the bone, researchers report.

Maud Alobawone-Rutgers • futurity
Oct. 21, 2020 ~4 min

Key protein tweak may stop cancer’s spread

Researchers have discovered a protein key to cancer's spread and relapse. It could lead to new treatments that ditch unfortunate side effects.

Duke-NUS • futurity
June 30, 2020 ~4 min

Switch ‘turns off’ breast cancer metastasis in mice

Researchers have pinpointed a gene that causes an aggressive form of breast cancer to rapidly grow in animal models and how to "switch it off."

Carolyn Scofield-Tulane • futurity
June 3, 2020 ~4 min

1 gene could unlock the mystery of cancer metastasis

"Patients often ask 'Why am I so unlucky? Why did my cancer spread?' As doctors, we never had an answer... This research provides an explanation."

Katherine Fenz-Rockefeller • futurity
May 26, 2020 ~7 min

Protein signals if non-small cell lung cancer will spread

A newly identified protein indicates which non-small cell lung cancer is more likely to metastasize.

Carolyn Scofield-Tulane • futurity
March 12, 2020 ~4 min


Breast cancer cells shift metabolism to spread

The discovery of how breast cancer cells shift to mitochondrial metabolism to metastasize could lead to new ways to stop their spread and reduce mortality.

Anne Warde-UC Irvine • futurity
March 9, 2020 ~3 min

Cancer’s ‘addiction’ could be a way to defeat it

Scientists call some cancers "Wnt addicted" because they can't live without it. New research with gastric cancer organoids suggests a new treatment strategy.

Nerissa Hannink-Melbourne • futurity
Dec. 10, 2019 ~6 min

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