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An estimated ninety percent of deaths from breast cancer are due tocomplications resulting from metastasis, a process in which cancer cells break away from where they first formed, travel through the blood or lymph circulatory system, and form new, metastatic tumors in other parts of the body. Until now, there has been no effective treatment to block this process. Researchers at Bar-Ilan University have identified the protein interaction that causes the cancer spread, and developed a peptide that was shown to be 90 percent effective in preventing metastasis in mice. The scientists  who partnered in the study, Dr. Hava Gil-Henn of the Azrieli Faculty of Medicine of Bar-Ilan University and Prof. Jordan Chill, of Bar-Ilan University's Department ofChemistry, told KAN reporter Naomi Segal that their findings are a first step toward development of a preventative drug against cancer spread. (Photo: Lymph node metastasis. Shutterstock)  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.