'Self-seeding' of cancer cells may play a critical role in tumor...

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Courtesy EurekAlert! - Cancer  Wed, 12/23/2009 - 23:00

(Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center) Cancer progression is commonly thought of as a process involving the growth of a primary tumor followed by metastasis, in which cancer cells leave the primary tumor and spread to distant organs.

A new study by researchers at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center shows that circulating tumor cells -- cancer cells that break away from a primary tumor and disseminate to other areas of the body -- can also return to and grow in their tumor of origin, a newly discovered process called "self-seeding."

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