Research published in Nature Communications today, has shown that techniques initially developed for astronomy and ecology can be used to study the microenvironment of solid tumors.
Led by Peter Mac’s 2020 Lea Medal winner Dr. Anna Trigos and Yuzhou Feng, the study looked at patient tumor samples from prostate, colon and breast cancers and identified novel cancer subtypes, new patterns associated with patient survival, and was able to predict which patients were likely to develop metastasis first.
These exciting results have generated significant interest from medical oncologists, pathologists and immunologists.
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