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Window into cancer-spread secrets

News Type: Event — Seeded on Mon Nov 10, 2008 10:04 PM EST
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A technique which literally places a window in a mouse's chest could help scientists unlock cancer's most mysterious and deadly process.

US scientists were able to keep a mouse alive for 21 days with the tiny piece of glass in place.

During that period they could watch cells from a breast tumour as they spread to other tissues, reports the journal Nature Methods.

Cancer Research UK said it could unlock ways to stop this spread in humans.

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