Alastair Saunders: Striated muscle and inadequate soil for cancers
Alastair Saunders, PhD candidate at Centre for Muscle Research, shared on X:
“Excited to share my first, 1st author paper: Striated muscle and inadequate soil for cancers – in Cancer and Metastasis Reviews We reviewed the current theories explaining why muscles rarely host cancers
Notable hypotheses covered in the review include:
-Biomechanical destruction of cancer cells occurs within muscle (Weiss, 1988, 1989)
-Fusion of cancer cells to muscle prevents cancer cell growth (Parlakian et al 2010)
-Secreted products from muscle deter muscle metastases (Djaldetti et al 1996, Bar-Yehuda et al 2001, Luo et al 2002)
-High oxidative stress in muscle prevents disseminated tumour cell outgrowth (Crist et al 2002 Cyrus Ghajar).”
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