top of page
SBC Logo 200 px x 200 px.png
Accessibility Tools

Upcoming
events

Is It Possible to Prevent Breast Cancer Metastasis?

Writer's picture: Surviving Breast CancerSurviving Breast Cancer

Jan. 21, 2019| By Diane Mapes / Fred Hutch News Service

Original article published on FredHutch.org here.


Study reveals how blood vessels in the bone marrow protect dormant tumor cells, suggests a way to kill them in their sleep.


Fred Hutch translational researcher Dr. Cyrus Ghajar talks about the spread of breast cancer tumor cells during the third annual Northwest Metastatic Breast Cancer Conference in October 2018. Video excerpt by Connor O'Shaughnessy / Fred Hutch News Service


Researchers at Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center in Seattle may have found a way to essentially smother cancer cells in their sleep, preventing them from ever waking up and forming deadly metastatic tumors.