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A breakthrough in understanding how cancer spreads could lead to better treatments, according to experts.
Scientists have discovered that cancer cells ‘hijack’ a process used by healthy cells to spread around the body, completely changing current ways of thinking about cancer.
Despite being one of the main causes of death in cancer patients, metastasis — when cancer spreads — has remained incredibly difficult to prevent.
This is largely because researchers have found it hard to identify key drivers of this process, which could be targeted by drugs.
Now, they have discovered a protein called NALCN may play a key role.
In experiments in mice, they found that blocking the activity of the NALCN protein triggered metastasis.
A breakthrough in understanding how cancer spreads could lead to better treatments, according to experts
