Blocking Gateway into Bone May Halt Breast Cancer Spread (1 of 3) (VIDEO)

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Circulating breast cancer cells before treatment with a CXCR4 inhibitor. This material relates to a paper that appeared in the May 25, 2016, issue of Science Translational Medicine, published by AAAS. The paper, by T.T. Price at Duke University in Durham, NC, and colleagues was titled, 'Dormant breast cancer micrometastases reside in specific bone marrow niches that regulate their transit to and from bone.'

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T. Price <i>et al. / Science Translational Medicine</i> (2016)

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