What is cancer metastasis? Metastasis is what happens when cancer cells spread throughout the body, most often to other organs, like the brain, bone tissue, the lungs and the liver. Metastasis, more often than not, turns cancer into an untreatable, terminal disease. No effective therapies are available.
After surgical removal of the primary tumour, most cancer patients are treated with chemo-therapy and radiation to eradicate the remaining tumour cells that have been left behind by incomplete surgical removal of cancerous lesions. Unfortunately, many cancer patients ultimately undergo tumour recurrence, resulting in distant metastasis (cancer spread).
As a result, more than 90% of these patients that undergo treatment failure die from metastatic disease. Therefore, the discovery of inhibitors of metastasis could turn cancer into a chronic treatable disease and remove the fear from a cancer diagnosis.
It would be absolute fantastic if the clinical trials on this were successful. It would be even better if they could be fast tracked by massive investment from multi national governments, as the Covid 19 vaccine has been. Covid has killed a lot of people in a short time, but cancer has killed a lot more people over a longer period of time, my best friend for 1 who died of secondary breast cancer.
Sharon's sister had triple negative breast cancer, which then spread to her lungs and from the lungs, spread to her brain which ultimately killed her. The whole process took just 18 months from first diagnosis to the end.
Luckily, I managed to hire 'Lapwing' one of the biggest sailing yachts on the broads, with 8 berths and took the whole family away on a two week holiday, it gave Sharon and Lynne two weeks of great quality time together, before she passed away 6 months later.
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