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📅 2023 MIT Science Bowl High School Invitational🎓 HS🔄 Round 1#️⃣ Question 6 TOSS UP✍️ Short Answer

Researchers at the Weinberg Lab at MIT are studying the epithelial-mesenchymal transition, or EMT, of cancer cells. Specifically, they discovered that cells undergoing the EMT are most likely to spread to other parts of the body. What term refers to this process, in which cancer cells migrate and grow in areas of the body far from the initial tumor?

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