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Stopping cancer before it colonizes

Controlling the growth of cancer cells at metastatic sites is one goal of cancer drug development. Studies of metastasis suppressor function bring this long-sought goal closer (pages 933938).

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Figure 1: Model for KAI1-mediated metastasis suppression.

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Rinker-Schaeffer, C., Hickson, J. Stopping cancer before it colonizes. Nat Med 12, 887–888 (2006). https://doi.org/10.1038/nm0806-887

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