Researchers have identified link between breast cancer metastases, inflammatory arthritis

Researchers have identified a link between the chronic inflammatory condition arthritis and breast cancer-associated metastasis, according to the results of a preclinical study presented at the American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) Annual Meeting 2012. The results indicate inflammatory cells known as mast cells play a key role in the increase of metastasis in mouse models with arthritis and interfering with these mast cells reduces the occurrence of bone and lung metastases...