CNIO-CaixaResearch Frontiers Meeting: Metastasis

Abstract

Metastasis is the main driving force for cancer-associated lethality as they are more difficult to treat than primary tumors. The exponential increase in heterogeneity throughout the metastatic cascade and the underlying biology that involves the generation of novel ecosystems incorporating resident and peripheral components of the microenvironment might explain the increased ability to resist therapies. The CNIO Frontier meeting will provide the most up-to-date perspective on metastasis including the best ways to model metastasis, embrace its heterogeneity, prevent metastases from happening, exploit organ-specific survival mechanism of cancer cells among other key topics. These novel research findings will be contributed by leaders in the field, which will make the CNIO Frontier Meeting on Metastasis the most relevant cancer research forum of the year.