Autophagy Suppresses Breast Cancer Metastasis

Developmental Cell
Benjamin N Ostendorf, Sohail F Tavazoie

Abstract

Cancer cells need to acquire specific molecular traits in order to spread to distant organs. In this issue of Developmental Cell, Marsh et al. show that autophagy restricts the outgrowth of breast cancer metastases in contrast to its impact on primary tumor progression.

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