Taipei Times
Date: May 03, 2018
By: Jonathan Chin / Staff writer, with CNA
Taiwanese researchers have become the first in the world to pin down a gene key to
Jou Yuh-shan, right, a research fellow at Academia Sinica’s Institute of Biomedical Sciences, and postdoctoral researcher Yeh Hsi-wen yesterday participate in a news conference in Taipei to introduce the findings of their study on cancer metastatasis related to a gene named paraspeckle component 1. Photo: Wu Liang-yi, Taipei Times
triggering metastasis of cancer cells, scientists at Academia Sinica announced yesterday.
The gene, known as paraspeckle component 1 — or PSPC1 — causes the metastasis of cancer in 60 percent to 70 percent of human patients, Jou Yuh-shan (周玉山), a research fellow at Academia Sinica’s Institute of Biomedical Sciences, told a news conference in Taipei.
In early-stage cancer, the condition affects only a localized part of the body, but when cancer spreads, the diagnosis changes to stage three or stage four, signifying that cancer cells are growing and spreading through blood vessels, he said.
Stage three and stage four cancer is marked by the progression of cancer into other parts of the body, resulting in a deterioration of health and eventual death, he said.
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