An analysis of breast cancer cells captured as they escape from primary tumours has provided the best clinical evidence to date in favour of a popular theory of cancer metastasis.
The work, published this week in Science, also unveils an improved method for plucking tumour cells from blood, a technique that may one day allow physicians and researchers to track the spread of cancer without resorting to invasive biopsies.
“It’s very exciting,” says Caroline Dive, a Cancer Research UK researcher at the University of Manchester. “It’s paving the way for an explosion of studies looking at these circulating tumour cells.”
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