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Expansion stress enhances growth and migration of breast cancer cells

In In The News by Barbara Jacoby

By: Christina Crowe From: uab.edu Expansion stress can have an alarming impact on breast cancer cells by creating conditions that could lead to dangerous acceleration of the disease, an interdisciplinary team of University of Alabama at Birmingham researchers has found. As breast tumors grow, biomechanical forces in the tumor microenvironment, or TME, cause elevated compression at the tumor interior, tension …