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Albert Einstein College of Medicine

Metastasis

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Images of metastasis (tumor spread) in lungs of two mice: untreated tumor (left) and a tumor in which autophagy has been blocked (right) . Metastatic areas are dark pink (arrows). A tumor’s ability to metastasize decreases dramatically when autophagy is halted.

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Albert Einstein college of Medicine

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