Biologists Build A Better Mouse Model For Cancer Research

Courtesy ScienceDaily  Fri, 04/11/2008 - 01:00

Metastasis, the spread of cancer from a primary site to other tissues and organs in the body, is the leading cause of death among cancer patients.

Without an animal model that consistently reproduces human-like metastasis, researchers have relied on individual cancer patients to assess new therapies.

Researchers now have a new mouse model they used it to make a new finding about the role of macrophage cells in the spread of cancer.

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