Fluidity Predicts Aggressiveness of Cancerous Tumours

11-Aug-2023 - Doctors have been palpating suspicious hardened areas under their patients’ skin throughout recorded history. Scientists at Charité university clinic in Berlin and Leipzig University, in cooperation with clinical diagnostic radiologists and biophysicists, have now proven that this ancient ...

Cancer cells adopt hitherto unknown state to facilitate metastasis

New insights into tumour biology

05-Oct-2022 - The ancient Egyptians, as described in the Ebers Papyrus, already knew that palpation –feeling for hardened lumps – can help diagnose breast cancer. Palpation is still an important element in early screening for breast cancer. On the other hand, measurements on individual cancer cells show that ...