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Researchers identify protein that helps skin cancer spread throughout the body

Researchers have identified a key protein that makes melanoma, the most serious type of skin cancer, more aggressive and allows cancer cells to migrate and spread around the body.
10 Jan 2023
Written by Katherine Denyer
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