Cancer cells alter protein production machinery to hasten metastasis
An increase in ribosomes, the protein-making machinery found in every living cell, increases their potential to form metastasis.
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Boston, MAPhone: 617-726-5130
Waltham, MAPhone: 781-487-6100
Dr. Douglas Micalizzi is a medical oncologist at Massachusetts General Hospital specializing in breast cancer, early cancer detection and hereditary cancer risk. He is also the Clinical Director of the Cancer Early Detection and Diagnostics Clinic. Dr. Micalizzi received his undergraduate degree in chemistry from Villanova University. He pursued his MD from University of Colorado and PhD in molecular biology at the University of Colorado in the lab of Dr. Heide Ford. He completed his internship and residency in internal medicine at Massachusetts General Hospital and fellowship in medical oncology at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and the Massachusetts General Hospital. For his postdoctoral fellowship, he worked in the lab of Dr. Daniel Haber and Dr. Shyamala Maheswaran at the Massachusetts General Hospital Cancer Center. He is currently an instructor of medicine at Harvard Medical School.
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Mass General Cancer Center
55 Fruit St.
Boston, MA 02114
Phone: 617-726-5130
Phone: 877-726-5130
Mass General Cancer Center in Waltham
52 Second Ave.
Suite 1110
Waltham, MA 02451
Phone: 781-487-6100
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An increase in ribosomes, the protein-making machinery found in every living cell, increases their potential to form metastasis.
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