Although metastasis is responsible for 90 percent of cancer-related deaths, it’s one of the least-studied aspects of cancer—perhaps because it is one of the trickiest to investigate. Metastases can be ...

Researchers warn that this finding does not imply that cancer patients can take aspirin without a medical prescription. Metastasis, the spread of cancer cells from primary tumors to distant organs ...

The researchers previously screened 810 genes in mice and found 15 that had an effect on cancer metastasis. In particular, they found that mice lacking a gene that produces a protein called ...

However, there was a twist. Researchers injected some of the mice with cells that produced fully functional ENPP1, while others received cells with inactivated ENPP1. This latter group showed lower ...