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  • Shape of tumor may affect whether cells can metastasize

    Apr 27, 2016 11:15 am by Liz AhlbergResearch
    photo of materials science and engineering professor Kristopher Kilian, graduate student Junmin Lee and veterinary medicine professor Timothy Fan. Photo by L. Brian Stauffer

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    • photo of materials science and engineering professor Kristopher Kilian, graduate student Junmin Lee and veterinary medicine professor Timothy Fan. Photo by L. Brian Stauffer

    Illinois researchers found that the shape of a tumor may play a role in how cancer cells become primed to spread.