Metastatic colon cancer may begin spreading throughout the body very early on -- even when the original tumor is no bigger than a poppy seed, a new study suggests.
Plus, Curtis said, discovering which genetic"drivers" cause cancer to spread early could allow researchers to develop newAccording to Dr. Martin Weiser, a colon cancer specialist at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York City,"These findings are very important. This is top-notch work."
For each patient, the researchers compared the pattern of genetic mutations in the original colon tumor with that in the metastases. The researchers found that certain combinations of gene mutations were strongly related to the odds of metastases.
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