{"id":235718,"date":"2026-04-22T22:04:16","date_gmt":"2026-04-23T03:04:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/04\/catching-cancers-earliest-moments-how-mutated-cells-transform-their-local-environment-so-a-tumor-can-develop"},"modified":"2026-04-22T22:04:16","modified_gmt":"2026-04-23T03:04:16","slug":"catching-cancers-earliest-moments-how-mutated-cells-transform-their-local-environment-so-a-tumor-can-develop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/04\/catching-cancers-earliest-moments-how-mutated-cells-transform-their-local-environment-so-a-tumor-can-develop","title":{"rendered":"Catching cancer\u2019s earliest moments: How mutated cells transform their local environment so a tumor can develop"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/catching-cancers-earliest-moments-how-mutated-cells-transform-their-local-environment-so-a-tumor-can-develop.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Scientists at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center (MSK) and their colleagues are shedding new light on a tumor\u2019s earliest moments\u2014revealing how lung cells with cancer-causing mutations recruit accomplices from healthy surrounding tissue to pave the way for a tumor to develop.<\/p>\n<p>This corruption of the local neighborhood\u2014what scientists call the \u201ctumor microenvironment\u201d\u2014begins surprisingly early, as tumors first emerge, according to a study <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41586-026-10399-6\" target=\"_blank\">published April 22 in <i>Nature<\/i><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The team\u2019s findings show that when this communication with surrounding cells is disrupted, tumors fail to grow.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scientists at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center (MSK) and their colleagues are shedding new light on a tumor\u2019s earliest moments\u2014revealing how lung cells with cancer-causing mutations recruit accomplices from healthy surrounding tissue to pave the way for a tumor to develop. This corruption of the local neighborhood\u2014what scientists call the \u201ctumor microenvironment\u201d\u2014begins surprisingly early, as [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-235718","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235718","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=235718"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235718\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=235718"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=235718"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=235718"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}