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Are Bones a Conduit for Certain Cancers?

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School of Dentistry researchers believe they know why prostate and breast cancer usually recur in the bone.  

Dr. Russell Taichman, senior author of a new study which appears online in the Journal of Clinical Investigation, investigated possible interrelationships in stem cell development, cancer cell proliferation, and bone biology.

The research is important because it demonstrates that the bone marrow niche plays a central role in bone metastasis, cancers that spread into the bone, giving researchers a new potential drug target. Read more...

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