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"The longer it takes breast cancer to metastasise, the more aggressive it becomes"

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"El Periódico" and other media, report on a recent study that reveals the biological changes in breast cancer between the primary tumour and metastasis. 

Published in the journal Cancer Research, this work describes for the first time that the longer the time between the diagnosis of the primary tumour and the onset of metastasis is, the more aggressive the cancer becomes.

The first author of the study is Juan Miguel Cejalvo, PhD student of the PhD4MD programme led by Aleix Prat at IDIBAPS and ICREA researcher Roger Gomis at IRB Barcelona.

Link to El Periódico

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The Institute for Research in Biomedicine (IRB Barcelona) pursues a society free of disease. To this end, it conducts multidisciplinary research of excellence to cure cancer and other diseases linked to ageing. It establishes technology transfer agreements with the pharmaceutical industry and major hospitals to bring research results closer to society, and organises a range of science outreach activities to engage the public in an open dialogue. IRB Barcelona is an international centre that hosts 400 researchers and more than 30 nationalities. Recognised as a Severo Ochoa Centre of Excellence since 2011, IRB Barcelona is a CERCA centre and member of the Barcelona Institute of Science and Technology (BIST).