"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.
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This research will help to identify those genes that play a key role in the initiation of metastasis
Metastasis causes 90% of cancer related deaths
TV3’s programme “Els Matins” has interviewed Francesc Posas, director of IRB Barcelona, about the increase in donations given to NGOs and research centres in Catalonia and about the #Metastasis Challenge campaign. During the interview, he talked about the importance of small fundraising initiatives undertaken by individuals, such as that of Magdalena Socias, a cancer patient who has decided to join the challenge by walking the Sierra de Tramontana to give visibility to the fight against metastasis.
Many treatments against cancer, such as TRAIL, aim to trigger a type of cell death known as apoptosis.
A team at IRB Barcelona, headed by Antonio Zorzano, has demonstrated that the protein TP53INP2 induces apoptosis in chemotherapy treatments.
