Changing cancer's environment to halt its spread

<P>&nbsp;Contact: Keri Stedman<BR>keri.stedman@childrens.harvard.edu<BR>617-919-3110<BR>Boston Children's Hospital <BR>
<P>Boston, Mass.?By studying the roles two proteins, thrombospondin-1 and prosaposin, play in discouraging cancer metastasis, a trans-Atlantic research team has identified a five-amino acid fragment of prosaposin that significantly reduces metastatic spread in mouse models of prostate, breast and lung cancer. The findings suggest

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