Tumor infiltration of major blood vessels, not metastasis, may be primary cause of cancer death

Published Date: 17 Oct 2025

The ultimate cause of death from cancer may not be metastatic disease, as researchers have long surmised, but an infiltration of tumors into major blood vessels that cause blood clots and multiorgan failure, a one-of-a-kind ...

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