Genes don’t explain why cancer spreads. Bring the body back into the picture

11 by / on 25 Sep 2017, / in cancer

Why are some cases of cancer cleared from the body after surgery while others lurk, waiting to metastasize and emerge elsewhere months or even years later? There is no good answer at the moment because the conditions that allow these invaders to flourish doesn’t fit with our gene-focused theory of how and why cancer develops in the first place.