Younger women have fewer treatment options, she said. "Those types of breast cancer tend to metastasize (spread) early."

Perkins同意这一个观点，说道，年轻的女性缺少检查的选择，这些形式的乳癌早期会转移，有可能转移到脑部。

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The actual target was breast cancer stem cells, the cells from which cancers grow and metastasize, and which tend to resist drug and radiation treatments.

事实上，加热的目标是那些会导致癌症生长和转移、以及对药物和化疗有抵抗力的乳腺癌干细胞。

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Doctors wanted to use the induction dose to kill the cancer cells that would continue to grow and metastasize elsewhere in the body.

医生希望使用诱导剂量的化疗，以杀灭肺部可能增长或转移到身体其他部位的肿瘤细胞。

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One idea, put forth by Soon-Shiong himself, was that when cancer cells metastasize they secrete a protein called SPARC, which also leads them to absorb Abraxane.

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Going a step better, Millennium and Becton, Dickinson will soon introduce a test to predict which cases of melanoma, a nasty form of skin cancer, will metastasize.

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This actually can take place on the cellular level within a given cancer and can evolve toward being, for instance, resistant to chemotherapy, more likely to metastasize, and ultimately, at least potentially, towards the ability to transmit from one individual to another.

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