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Ekram Er, PhD, assistant professor of physiology and biophysics and member of the University of Illinois Cancer Center’s Cancer Biology program, was quoted in a story by The Scientist on how recent insights, such as the recognition that disseminated cancer cells can lie dormant for years before seeding secondary tumors, suggest novel strategies for fighting metastatic disease.