Spotlight Featured Researcher Cyrus Ghajar studies metastasis and how the microenvironments of these sites can put cancer cells to sleep – or wake them up.
The 30 trillion cells in our bodies harbor a lot of potentially dangerous DNA mutations but most will never grow a tumor. The protective strategies our bodies use to stave off tumor growth in the face of inevitable mutations could help researchers uncover new ways to prevent or treat cancer, if they're willing to look.