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Mitochondrial Antioxidant Found to Drive Breast Cancer Metastasis

While antioxidants generally promote health, researchers have learned that under certain conditions some antioxidants operating within cellular compartments can fuel the spread of cancer. New work demonstrates how one antioxidant inside particular cellular compartments, the mitochondrial metabolite glutathione, helps cancer cells metastasize throughout the body by enabling their survival under low-oxygen conditions. These findings suggest that therapies capable of blocking glutathione transport into organelles within the cell could help treat breast cancer.

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