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Scientists Discover a Cannabis Receptor That Could Stop Breast Cancer Spreading

Cancer cells are proving trickier than we thought, so scientists are getting even trickier to shift the survival odds in our favor.  Recent medical research has highlighted a significant issue: cancer cells display plasticity.  Some cancer cells can spontaneously revert from a differentiated state to become 'immature' and stem-cell-like again, switching their identity to yield more diverse, aggressive, and proliferative tumors.

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