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Summary
Biologists who sift DNA for evidence of what causes cancer cells to become metastatic are torn between two camps. One holds that a fatal problem occurs relatively late, when so-called metastasis suppressor genes fail, allowing an existing tumor to spread. But a second group holds that metastasis is just the final step of well-studied processes of cell dysregulation.
