The metastatic spread of breast cancer accelerates during sleep

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Eric Topol
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Jun 22, 2022
"We find that, in both patients with breast #cancer and mouse models, generation of CTCs [circulating tumor cells] is highly restricted to the rest phase"
Should anti-cancer therapy be timed to a person's circadian rhythm?
https://nature.com/articles/s41586-022-04875-y… @Nature
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The metastatic spread of breast cancer accelerates during sleep
Nature - A study of patients with breast cancer and mouse models demonstrates that most circulating tumour cells are generated during the rest phase of the circadian rhythm, and that these cells...

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"Astoundingly, they found that more than 78% of all the CTCs obtained were from the samples taken during the resting [sleep] phase."
https://nature.com/articles/d41586-022-01639-6…
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The study is paywalled, but here's the screenshots provided.

[viva la]

1. Well, that's scary

Cancer patients need sleep, but this will inspire insomnia.

[StarryNite]

2. Geez, that's not good.

[ms liberty]

3. This is interesting. n/t