Scientists discover new information on the spread of cancer

A joint working group VTT Technical Research Center of Finland and the University of Turku, the direction of Professor Johanna Ivask, discovered a mechanism, cell lung cancer can be used if the spread in the body for training metastases.

The study was published in Science on 30 June 2009 Signaling. In collaboration with the University of Heidelberg, they have also a factor controlling the distribution of various types of cancer. The common characteristic of these results is that dire, the lethal capacity of cancer cells to "run" and the original tumor to other parts of the body.

The cancer is deadly because its ability to spread in the body in the formation of metastases. So far, it was recognized that the proliferation of cancer cells to lose the factors, the link with other cells of the tumor, which allows cells to resolve and hiking in the body.

Videos into the category of Saara Tuomi Doctorant the migration of cells from lung cancer shown in the group that the responsibility of their receptor cells in a manner that is not known. The new knowledge of the research shows that cancer cells are able to changes in the way of a factor that supports up to now remain in force begins to cells "of responsibility and receivers, the condition of migration of cells. The group found evidence that tumors of patients, the lung cancer death, because metastases were that the cells with the displacement of this unknown mechanism.

The determination of the supply of new opportunities for the development of medicine, because the mechanism of migration is crucial for normal cells. The research results were presented June 30 2009, cell biology, Science Signaling, the daughter of the top reviewed scientific journal Science.

The research group led by Professor Jeanne Ivask in collaboration with researchers from the University of Heidelberg a new element, that controls the appearance of cancer cell receptors in different types of cancer. The new protein was SCAI. The name is an invasion of the inhibitor of cancer. Research shows that many cancers are able to prevent factor. This result is the addition of cancer, the number of their responsibility to receptors on the cell surface and effectively. The fact that the suppression is removed, it is possible that cancer dissemination. The research results were in May 2009, Top-scientific journal Nature Cell Biology.