“In the new study, Cambridge scientists discovered not just a new mechanism for metastasis, but completely recontextualized its role. It’s long been thought that metastasis was an abnormal process that arises in cancer, but the new study found that it’s a process used by healthy cells as well – cancer just hijacks it for its own purposes.”

“These findings are among the most important to have come out of my lab for three decades,” said Professor Richard Gilbertson, Group Leader of the study. “Not only have we identified one of the elusive drivers of metastasis, but we have also turned a commonly held understanding of this on its head, showing how cancer hijacks processes in healthy cells for its own gains. If validated through further research, this could have far-reaching implications for how we prevent cancer from spreading and allow us to manipulate this process to repair damaged organs.”

The team now plans to investigate ways to take advantage of this discovery to prevent metastasis, including repurposing existing drugs.”

Another day another cancer breakthrough. Can't wait for the next one in the afternoon, and the next one tomorrow morning.

Sounds good. I'm sure these people are working hard to figure new things out.

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"Multiple Discovery" with a bit of "Technological Singularity" on the side.

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I read the title at first and wanted to be cynical because every article I see about cancer claims to be a breakthrough when a lot of them are dead end and we just don't hear about them after more experiments show they're crap, only worked in mice and rats, or they run out of funding and can't continue that direction of experimentation for treatment.

But they have done a lot for cancer treatments, in my life time at least. Hearing people say they beat their cancer is way more common today than it was 20 years ago. From the available data from 2001 to 2017 cancer death rates in the US dropped 1.8% a year for men (so about 30%) 1.4 per year for women (so about 24%)

Even with the rates of cancer going up over all because of people living longer and also probably environmental factors with the older generations like leaded gasoline, the prevalence of cigarette smoking, ect., and probably other unconfirmed things causing cancer like microplastics getting into the environment. So even with that increase of cancer the fact that we've decreased the deaths by about a quarter is pretty amazing!

The news isn't going to advertise that much though because most people are not good with percentages and instead of the general public hearing we've cured and or treated 24 to 30% of cancer all the public is going to hear is 70 to 75% of people die from cancer. Even if they could explain it clearly for the majority of people they're not going to do that because it would be a feel-good story and they need you afraid to keep watching.

I stopped reading this halfway through bro. Make it scarier to hold people's attention. Geesh.

You're right I should have listened to The Offspring and "just accept my own advice."

Bad advice dude. You think that just because you can't hold the attention, then "people" can't too. Geesh.

Someone didn't read the post.

:)

But people do

It's a joke. Op got it. You didn't.