Decades of research has focused on understanding what drives cancer to spread to new sites in the body through a process called metastasis. This multistep event is a hallmark of cancer that is associated with malignancy and poor disease prognosis1. Therefore, there is a pressing need to develop innovative treatment strategies2. Writing in Nature, Abbott et al.3 report their investigations of the metabolic requirements for the spread of breast cancer, which is a type of tumour that commonly metastasizes to the bones, lungs, brain and liver.
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