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Stopping Cancer in Its Tracks: Fighting Cancer Metastasis. One of the most important strategies in the fight against cancer is learning how to stop cancer cells in their tracks. Most cancer-related deaths result from metastasis, a process that enables malignant cells to leave their original site in the body and seed new tumors, potentially wreaking havoc in distant organs. Rockefeller University physician-scientist Sohail Tavazoie, M.D., Ph.D. is a leader in the study of metastasis. In this Talking Science lecture for high school students, Dr. Tavazoie discusses some of his laboratory’s recent discoveries about genetic mechanisms that enable cancer cells to invade tissues, evade immune defenses, and overcome other challenges to their survival. He talks about his efforts to develop targeted new cancer drugs that can block metastasis—including promising candidate therapies that are the focus of ongoing clinical trials in cancer patients.
Stopping Cancer in Its Tracks: Fighting Cancer Metastasis. One of the most important strategies in the fight against cancer is learning how to stop cancer cells in their tracks. Most cancer-related deaths result from metastasis, a process that enables malignant cells to leave their original site in the body and seed new tumors, potentially wreaking havoc in distant organs. Rockefeller University physician-scientist Sohail Tavazoie, M.D., Ph.D. is a leader in the study of metastasis. In this Talking Science lecture for high school students, Dr. Tavazoie discusses some of his laboratory’s recent discoveries about genetic mechanisms that enable cancer cells to invade tissues, evade immune defenses, and overcome other challenges to their survival. He talks about his efforts to develop targeted new cancer drugs that can block metastasis—including promising candidate therapies that are the focus of ongoing clinical trials in cancer patients.
