Cancer spread in the liver is unlocked from within

• 成果类型: Editorial Material
• 署名作者: Woess, Katharina; Alonso-Curbelo, Direna
• 署名单位: Barcelona Institute of Science & Technology; Institute for Research in Biomedicine - IRB Barcelona; Barcelona Institute of Science & Technology
• 刊物名称: Nature
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0028-4706
• DOI: 10.1038/d41586-024-02235-6
• 发表日期: 2024-08-08
• 页码: 262-264
• 关键词: metastasis; organotropism

摘要

How spreading tumour cells gain the ability to grow in organs away from where they originated is not fully understood. The discovery that normal liver cells help invading tumour cells to thrive in this organ sheds light on this process.