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How cancer cells communicate -- and how we can slow them down

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Hasini Jayatilaka |

TEDxMidAtlantic

• October 2017

When cancer cells are closely packed together in a tumor, they're able to communicate with each other and coordinate their movement throughout the body. What if we could interrupt this process? In this accessible talk about cutting-edge science, Hasini Jayatilaka shares her work on an innovative method to stop cancer cells from communicating -- and halt their fatal ability to spread.

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When cancer cells are closely packed together in a tumor, they're able to communicate with each other and coordinate their movement throughout the body. What if we could interrupt this process? In this accessible talk about cutting-edge science, Hasini Jayatilaka shares her work on an innovative method to stop cancer cells from communicating -- and halt their fatal ability to spread.

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Hasini Jayatilaka

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Hasini Jayatilaka discovered a novel mechanism that causes cancer cells to break away from tumors and metastasize.

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