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"This suggested that smaller tumors are shedding more cancer cells into the blood and causing more metastasis. We showed that a big tumor with good pericyte coverage is less metastatic than a smaller tumor of the same type with less pericyte coverage."
Are certain cancer treatments actually making things worse?
Seeded on Tue Jan 17, 2012 5:52 PM EST
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And from the abstract of the paper this story is based on:
Collectively, our study suggests that pericytes within the primary tumor microenvironment likely serve as important gatekeepers against cancer progression and metastasis.
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