Clue To Stopping Breast-cancer Metastasis Discovered

ScienceDaily reports Clue To Stopping Breast-cancer Metastasis Discovered:

If scientists knew exactly what a breast cancer cell needs to spread, then they could stop the most deadly part of the disease: metastasis. New research from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Medicine takes a step in that direction.

Carol Otey, Ph.D. and UNC colleagues reduced the ability of breast cancer cells to migrate by knocking down the expression of a protein called palladin.  They also found higher levels of palladin in four invasive breast cancer cell lines compared to four non-invasive cell lines.

Cool...  imagine if there was a drug one could take that reduced or eliminated metastasis?  That would be incredibly powerful.