WASHINGTON/BOSTON, Jan 31 (Hina) - A young Croatian scientist, dr. Mihaela Skobe, has made a scientific break-through which expert circles have described as an outstanding discovery of how cancer spreads. "We discovered a molecule
through which cancer stimulates the growth of lymph veins and builds its on paths for spreading in the organism," Skobe told Hina Wednesday.
WASHINGTON/BOSTON, Jan 31 (Hina) - A young Croatian scientist, dr.
Mihaela Skobe, has made a scientific break-through which expert
circles have described as an outstanding discovery of how cancer
spreads.
"We discovered a molecule through which cancer stimulates the
growth of lymph veins and builds its on paths for spreading in the
organism," Skobe told Hina Wednesday. #L#
Dr. Skobe has been working on the project with her colleagues at the
Cutaneous centre for biological research since she arrived in
Boston four years ago.
Skobe majored in molecular biology at the Zagreb Faculty of Science
in 1991. She earned her doctor's degree at a famous German
university in Heidelberg.
"The idea on this research arrived with me from Heidelberg," she
said.
Scientists have been doing serious research of cancer spreading and
its connection with the vascular system for a dozen years, but have
not tackled the issue of cancer spreading through the lymph system
convinced this was impossible, although it is common knowledge
lymph nodes grow in some cases of cancer.
Further research will make it possible to discover cancer in its
early stages by examining lymph nodes and their increasing. It
could also be possible to restrain the cancer by acting on molecules
it stimulates to build up lymph veins in the tissue.
The results of the research will be published for the first time in
the "National Medicine" magazine.
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