Julio Aguirre-Ghiso (Albert Einstein College of Medicine) on 'dormant' metastasis (VIDEO)

Centro Nacional de Investigaciones Oncológicas (CNIO)

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“Today we are still treating too late; cancer is one step ahead. Understanding the biology [of how metastasis begins] allows us to act when it is still dormant,” explained Julio Aguirre-Ghiso, from the Albert Einstein College of Medicine (USA), who discovered ‘dormant’ metastasis: there may be dormant cancer cells around the body, which don’t spread for years, but even after the primary tumour is removed, they can reactivate and form metastasis.

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