U.S. Team Finds Hints of How, Why Cancer Spreads

By Maggie Fox, Health and Science Correspondent
Friday, July 11, 2003

Washington (Reuters) - Researchers said on Friday they
were starting to find clues left by cancer when it begins
to spread, and hoped to develop them into tests that may
save the lives of future patients.

They found several of the genetic and protein markers in
the blood and tissue of patients whose cancer had killed
them.

Some of those markers should serve as early tests for the
spread, or metastasis, of cancer, they told a meeting of
the American Association of Cancer Research.

If caught early enough, cancer is highly curable.

"People don't die because they got cancer. People die
because they got cancer and we didn't detect it at a
point where we could do something about it," Dr. Andrew
von Eschenbach, head of the National Cancer Institute,
told a news conference.

Metastasis is responsible for 90 percent of cancer
deaths, according to the American Cancer Society.

Joan Massague, a Howard Hughes Medical Institute
researcher at the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
in New York, and colleagues have been making a
painstaking search for the products used by cancer cells
to spread.

The tumor cells must first travel around the body, find
the bone, brain or other tissue they will invade and then
literally break in. Each process will require different
genes and proteins. . . .
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