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Tumors have a bloody new way to grow and spread: vascular mimicry
- HillaryBriss 10y agoAnd that is why angiogenesis inhibitors don't work as well as we'd hoped. Damn.
- fragsworth 10y agoFortunately, according to the article, there are drugs that can prevent vasculogenic mimicry: > Yi-Wen Chu, TaiRx’s senior vice president, sent the drug to Hendrix, her former Ph.D. superviser, to determine whether it would halt vasculogenic mimicry. It did, curbing the activity of Nodal, a gene that drives vasculogenic mimicry by making cancer cells more like stem cells.
- softwaredoug 10y agoWait are the tumors learning? This headline is a tad confusing.
- dogma1138 10y agoSomewhat yes tumors have something dubbed "tumor escape mechanisms" these mechanisms allow it survive our immune system as well as treatments like radio therapy, chemotherapy and surgery. Tumor traits are likely to undergo similar natural selection processes like every other bilogical constructs.
- fragsworth 10y agoBut it isn't "new" in the sense that tumors are starting to do it recently. It's "new" in the sense that we are only now discovering it. That's why it is a bad title, a bit click-baity.