Overview
Often in cancer it’s the spread of the cancer to other areas of the body, a process called metastasis, that kills. This is particularly the case with two highly lethal types of cancer, medulloblastoma (MB), the most common malignant brain tumour in children, and pancreatic adenocarcinoma, the fourth leading cause of cancer deaths in Canadians. Recent results from the lab of Dr. Michael Taylor of The Hospital for Sick Children have shown that the biology of the metastases is extremely different from the primary tumour, making it unlikely that treatments developed to treat the primary tumour will work on the metastases. Dr. Taylor has teamed with Dr. Rama Khokha (Princess Margaret Cancer Centre) to develop and deploy unique tools to discover the drivers of metastasis, helping to improve survival rates of Canadians with these deadly human cancers.