Open AccessWidening the target for cancer treatment
Author(s) -
Nicole LeBrasseur
Publication year - 2002
Publication title -
the journal of cell biology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 5.414
H-Index - 380
eISSN - 1540-8140
pISSN - 0021-9525
DOI - 10.1083/jcb1574rr3
Subject(s) - biology , lymphatic system , cancer , margin (machine learning) , metastasis , cancer therapy , radiation therapy , general surgery , surgery , immunology , medicine , computer science , genetics , machine learning
Doctors treating cancer patients should aggressively target the area surrounding a tumor during surgery and radiation therapy. That suggestion comes as a result of new studies from Timothy Padera, Rakesh K. Jain, and colleagues (Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA), who report that metastasis occurs through lymphatic vessels in the tumor margin and nearby normal tissue.
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