A recent discovery in Ewing sarcoma, an aggressive and often fatal childhood cancer, has uncovered the potential to prevent cancer cells from spreading beyond their primary tumour site. The breakthrough provides new insight into what triggers the process that allows cancer cells to survive while travelling throughout the body in the bloodstream.
BC Children’s Hospital cancer researchers are part of a team that has been awarded the 2021 Team Science Award by the American Association for Cancer Research (AACR).
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