Tumor Invasion and Metastasis
Tumor Invasion
This is a paper that concentrates on tumor invasion and metastasis. There are five references used for this paper.
Cancer is one of the deadliest diseases faced by mankind today. It is important to look at tumor invasion and metastasis to understand how cancer can spread and ways in which the progress of cancer can be arrested.
Tumor Invasion
A substantial problem in the treatment of carcinoma patients is tumor invasion and metastasis. Approximately "30% of patients with newly diagnosed solid tumors already have clinically detectable metastases (herkules.oulu.fi/isbn9514254023/html/x446.html)." The production of "extracellular matrix degrading enzymes, such as serine proteinases, metalloproteinases, cysteine proteinases, threonine proteinases, and aspartic proteinases (herkules.oulu.fi/isbn9514254023/html/x446.html)" is linked with tumor invasion.
The transition from "in situ tumor growth to mestastic disease is defined by the ability of tumor cells at the primary site to invade local tissue and to cross tissue barriers (http://www.harcourt-international.com/e-books/pdf/478.pdf)." The process begins when neoplastic cells infiltrate "the basement membrane and invade the interstitial stroma by active protolysis. Intravasation requires tumor cell invasion of the subendothelial basement membrane, in a similar manner as tumor cell extravasation occurs in the distant organ (http://www.harcourt-international.com/e-books/pdf/478.pdf)."
Metastasis
Metastasis is the "transfer of a disease from an organ of a body to another not related to it. The spread of cancer cells to distant sites implies a complex series of cellular abnormalities caused, in part, by genetic aberrations (Van Noorden, 1998 )."
The majority of cells in the body are held "tightly in place by molecular tethers that link them with the other cells and the proteinaceous matrix in that tissue (Van Noorden, 1998)." The cells are not designed to travel throughout the body and invade other organs. However, the altered metastactic cancers cells are able to sever the links and attack the proteinaceous...
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