Cancer Patient's Brain Gives Clues To How The Disease Spreads

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Cancer Patient's Brain Gives Clues To How The Disease Spreads

<p><a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/11/15/cancer-spread-white-blood-cell-metastasis_n_4283852.html?ncid=txtlnkusaolp00000592"><img src="http://l.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/W6o1MhgtuUUEVPw31X23IQ--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7Zmk9ZmlsbDtoPTg2O3E9NzU7dz0xMzA-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/Huffington%20Post/Cancer_Patient%27s_Brain_Gives_Clues-3b70b186083940140478d4ad3719301d" width="130" height="86" alt="Cancer Patient's Brain Gives Clues To How The Disease Spreads" align="left" title="Cancer Patient's Brain Gives Clues To How The Disease Spreads" border="0" /></a>By Charles Choi, Contributing Writer Published: 11/15/2013 10:24 AMEST on LiveScience One of the great mysteries of cancer is how itspreads, or metastasizes, throughout the body. But researchers havemade an important discovery that may help to solve that puzzle:Cancer cells may fuse with white blood cells in order to spread.Researchers at Yale University have discovered a metastasis in thebrain of a cancer patient that likely grew from the hybrid of acancer cell and a white blood cell. The researchers investigated abrain metastasis in a 68-year-old cancer patient who had beentreated with</p><br clear="all"/>

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