Chemotherapy can speed up cancer spread, Chinese study finds
Common treatment can wake up dormant cancer cells, causing the disease to spread from original sites to other organs, team discovers
Their findings shed light on why breast cancer patients can experience cancer metastasis in organs like the lungs despite successful treatment of their primary tumours.
The team also found that the use of specific drugs in combination with chemotherapy could be used to inhibit this process in mice, and a clinical trial is already under way in breast cancer patients.
‘Staggering’ brain drain of US climate scientists may signal shift in scientific gravity
The ‘dreadful’ situation may herald a move in ‘bright young minds’ towards Hong Kong and other parts of Asia, CityU professor says
He said that out of 20-plus candidates for assistant professorships at CityU, half were working at leading US universities, including Columbia, Harvard, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Stanford and Yale.
Horton said he had approached colleagues he knew in the US about job openings in hopes of supporting young scientists who might relocate to Hong Kong as a “safe haven”.
“I emailed them saying, ‘I know how dreadful the situation is. But maybe I can offer some hope for your young scientist.’”
He added: “Not many people are looking after the young ones who have not made their impact yet. We were the only ones.”
