How Cancer Moves (IMAGE)

University of Southern California

How Cancer Moves

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Metastasis in progress: The human circulatory system in many ways resembles an elaborate highway system. In the artist's rendering above, we get a sense of the roughly 100,000 mile length of an adult's system of blood vessels. In this maze, Professor Paul Newton is forecasting the many detours of a circulating tumor cell (CTC).

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Illustration by Yang Liu.

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