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Despite a ban on the use of plants of theAristolochiagenus in herbal medicine, as they contain known carcinogens, urothelial carcinoma attributable to the use of this plant seems to be more common than previously thought.
Can mathematical techniques allow substantial biological interrogation of the seed and soil hypothesis of metastasis by considering the properties of circulating tumour cells?