NCI Researchers Identify Novel Mechanism for Spread of Sarcoma Tumors

Posted by National Institutes of Health (NIH) News Releases on November 27th, 2007 at 01:47pm

A team of researchers at the National Cancer Institute (NCI), part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), using a mouse model, have uncovered a novel protein interaction that promotes the spread of cancer cells (a process known as metastasis) in a class of tumors collectively called sarcomas.