Led by translational researcher Cyrus Ghajar, PhD, MET-X will be an interdisciplinary and collaborative program focused solely on solid tumor metastasis: its detection and prevention, but also treatments and ultimately, cures for this advanced stage of cancer. Metastatic cancer is also one of, if not the most, challenging areas of cancer biology, which is why there hasn’t been a ton of focused, funded metastatic research and few actual cures.įred Hutchinson Cancer Center hopes to change that with the launch of the Center for Metastasis Research Excellence, or MET-X, a focused research program aiming to crack one of the toughest biological challenges in medicine. Metastatic cancer is deadly, although many stage 4 patients are able to prolong their lives with treatments. It’s spread beyond the spot where it first cropped up - the breast, colon, lung, pancreas, ovary, prostate, testicle or other tissue - and continued to grow and to colonize distant sites around the body.
Viruses, Vaccines and Infectious Diseasesįor those with solid tumors, it’s usually because their cancer has metastasized.Institutional Partners & Collaborations.Vaccine and Infectious Disease Division.Subscribe to Oncology Insights Newsletter.
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