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From: Saulamanca2/15/2025 11:06:24 AM
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Electrical Network Discovered in Aggressive Lung Cancer

Researchers have found that some aggressive lung cancer cells can develop their own electric network, just like the one seen in the body’s nervous system.

Using neuroscience techniques, they found that the small cell lung cancer (SCLC) cells were able to go ‘off grid’. The cells were able to generate their own electrical activity, building an electrical network within the tumour, and becoming independent of the body’s main electrical supply.



 Lung cancer cells can go ‘off grid’

Researchers from the Francis Crick Institute have found that some particularly aggressive lung cancer cells can develop their own electric network, like that seen in the body’s nervous system.

Small cell lung cancer (SCLC) is one of the hardest types of cancer to treat and has often already spread by the time people are diagnosed. It mainly arises from neuroendocrine (NE) cells, which help regulate air and blood flow in the lungs.

In research published today in Nature, the team at the Crick looked for electrical activity in human and mouse SCLC samples, aiming to determine whether such activity may underpin the aggressiveness of this cancer type....

crick.ac.uk

Intrinsic electrical activity drives small-cell lung cancer progression
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