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  Think of all the mice they will save!
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  Israeli scientists are aiming to produce the world's first preventative drug designed to stop tumors causing secondary cancer, and say the active ingredient has shown more than 90 percent effectiveness in mice.
  The effectiveness rate reported means mice with breast cancer that received the peptide were at least 90% less likely to develop secondary tumors than the control group.
  Previous research shows that 12% of patients with a breast cancer diagnosis go on to develop metastatic disease, for which the five-year survival rate is 26%. Chemotherapy is used to kill as many cancer cells as possible, but it doesn't prevent any cells that get left behind from becoming active.
  
  
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  TIL mice have boobs >
  
  I mean, they are Mammals. >
  
  I have nipples, Greg. Can you milk me? >
  
  I haven't seen that movie in soooo long. Wonder if I would still find it hilarious so many years later >
  
  Modern science has made laboratory test mice indestructible. >
  
  I for one welcome our new mice overlords. It'll be a nice change of pace. >
  
  A mice change >
  
  I’m actually going to go ahead and say many of them are being used. Most things that are claimed to be “cures for cancer” are usually treatments for a certain type of cancer or a certain behavior of cancer, and so when they get finished and deployed they’re big but it’s not like we cured cancer. For instance this article is about stopping cancer from metastasizing which would be huge but wouldn’t cure cancer. >
  
  
  For instance this article is about stopping cancer from metastasizing which would be huge but wouldn’t cure cancer. 
  
  The potential for metastasis is literally what sets apart benign tumors from cancerous ones. >
  
  Can you share a source because I’ve always understood metastatic cancer as cancer that has moved from one area to the body to another, also called stage 4 cancer.
  I would love to read and learn more. >
  
  Metastasis == Spreading
  Yours is just a more specific usage of the word >
  
  The person he replied to didn't say spreading though, he said that 'metastasis' is what separates cancer from (benign) tumors.
  Is that true? Because I am pretty confident it isn't. Because as he says, metastasis is stage 4. >
  
  Metastatic cancer = cancer that has spread 
  Cancerous tumor = a tumor with the potential to spread (metastisize), if it hasn't already
  Benign tumor = a tumor without the potential to spread
  Source = trust me bro I'm paying a lot of money for medical school