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Published online 11 April 2007 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news070409-6

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How to stop cancer from spreading

Breast cancer kept from the lungs of mice with simple drug cocktail.

Breast cancer has been prevented from spreading in mice with a simple cocktail of drugs, some of which are already approved for human use.

The spread, or metastasis, of cancer is the most dreaded aspect of the disease: tumours formed this way are responsible for 90% of cancer deaths.

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