Cancer Metastasis

Metastasis is the primary cause of mortality in most cancers, yet today, metastatic spread is still poorly understood. In recent years, there is increasing evidence that metastatic colonization depends not just on the inherent properties of cancer cells, but also on properties of the microenvironment in distant sites. Understanding how disseminated cells evade and corrupt the immune system during the metastatic colonization will be pivotal in developing new therapeutic methods to combat metastasis.