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Inflammation lights the way to metastasis

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Tumour spread is the main cause of death in patients with melanoma. Exposure of melanoma to ultraviolet radiation has now been found to cause an inflammatory response that drives the formation of distant metastases. See Letter p.109

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Figure 1: Exposure to ultraviolet radiation drives metastasis.

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  1. Seth B. Coffelt and Karin E. de Visser are in the Division of Immunology, Netherlands Cancer Institute, 1066 CX Amsterdam, the Netherlands.,

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Coffelt, S., de Visser, K. Inflammation lights the way to metastasis. Nature 507, 48–49 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1038/nature13062

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