Cancer theory faces doubts

OSI Pharmaceuticals, based in Melville, New York, is already pursuing EMT inhibitors as possible cancer treatments, as are several academic labs. "EMT is really becoming a popular subject," says Shoukat Dedhar, a cancer researcher at the British Columbia Cancer Research Centre in Vancouver...

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Published inNature (London) Vol. 472; no. 7343; p. 273
Main Author Ledford, Heidi
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published London Nature Publishing Group UK 21.04.2011
Nature Publishing Group
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Animals
Biomedical research
Cancer
Cancer metastasis
Cancer therapies
Cell differentiation
Cell Movement
Cells, Cultured
Development and progression
Epithelial-Mesenchymal Transition
Health aspects
Humanities and Social Sciences
Humans
Medical research
Mice
Models, Biological
multidisciplinary
Neoplasm Metastasis - pathology
Neoplasms - pathology
news
Proteins
Reproducibility of Results
Science
Science (multidisciplinary)
United States
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Summary:OSI Pharmaceuticals, based in Melville, New York, is already pursuing EMT inhibitors as possible cancer treatments, as are several academic labs. "EMT is really becoming a popular subject," says Shoukat Dedhar, a cancer researcher at the British Columbia Cancer Research Centre in Vancouver and a self-avowed convert to the hypothesis. CONFLICTING IDEAS Champions of the EMT-metastasis hypothesis, including leading cancer biologist Robert Weinberg at the Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research in Cambridge, Massachusetts, say that this may simply be because EMT is so transient - once a metastatic cell has invaded a new tissue, its mesenchymal features melt away.
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ISSN:0028-0836
1476-4687
1476-4687
DOI:10.1038/472273a