Removing a cancer-activated cell type is shown to virtually eliminate liver metastasis

Hepatic stellate cells (HSCs) are activated to heal the liver when it has a lesion (such as fibrosis or fatty liver); their function is to protect the liver by producing an extracellular matrix comprising collagen, among other things, and creating a scar in the damaged liver. But the Cancer and Translational Medicine research group of the University of the Basque Country (EHU) found that these stellate liver cells help the metastatic tumor develop.

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