Scientists at the National Taiwan University Cancer Center and National Taiwan University Hospital have shed light on rare but important situations where radiotherapy to one tumor is accompanied by cancer growth or metastasis at untreated sites. Tumors with intrinsically high CD14 expression show increased neutrophil infiltration at baseline. This tumor-intrinsic feature, identified from both patient samples and mouse models, marks a higher risk of radiotherapy being followed by cancer growth or metastasis at distant sites.
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