Blocking tumor signals can slow down cancer's spread
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The spread of the initial tumor is blamed for most cancer death. Metastasis kills most of the cancer patients. Yet there are not many drugs that can target metastatic processes. Now, to overcome this hurdle, researchers studying molecular players that enhance cancer's spread identified a strategy to stop it. Using an inhibitor of the enzyme p38α kinase (p38), they reduced the spread of melanoma in a mouse model.
