TRACKING METASTASIS AND TRICKING CANCER

摘要

In the 1880s, British surgeon Stephen Paget examined autopsy reports from more than 900 patients with advanced breast cancer. He was trying to understand metastasis - the process by which tumours spread through the body. Paget reasoned that if all the organs were equally susceptible, with the location of tumour fragments governed by chance alone, then all the organs should be equally affected.