Metastasis:
The Early Bird Gets The Worm
What are we talking about ?
Well...let's look at the
CANCER as Worms
the BIRD
to be Modern medicine and the many medical professionals that help battle
the onslaught of tumors and malignant masses called
cancer.
Vicitms have been battling cancers for years and often they endure the worst therapies including chemo therapy and surgery, literally killing the body to stop the proliferation of a cancer. However, in many unfortunate cases when surgery has been complete and the sighs of relief begin, the cancer resurfaces and the cycle of grief begins again.
One Word : Metastasis:To find out more just click on the introduction button.
" Welcome to group 13's student produced website which reviews and analyzes the concepts in a scientific research paper for educational purposes in a Introductory Biology Class."
The paper that is being discussed is :
Gray, J.W., Evidence emerges for early metastasis and parallel
evolution of primary and metastatic tumors. Cancer Cell July 2003.
Schmidt-Kittler, O. et al., From latent disseminated cells to overt
metastasis: genetic analysis of systemic breast cancer progression. PNAS
100, 7734 (2003).