Butler County Times Gazette   • Kan. scientist attempting to
link cancer, protein    • Someday in the future scientists might
save millions of lives by solving the riddle of metastasis.
• email print     It is the mysterious process where cancer
cells begin migrating from the tumor of origin and spread the
disease.     If that riddle is solved it won't be because of one
scientist. All scientists, as Moriah Beck says, build on the
knowledge of those who precede them.     But any scientist who
solves it will likely remember what Beck did, in the years
leading up to 2012, while working in a laboratory at Wichita
State University.     Cancer kills more than half a million
people in the U.S. annually, according to estimates by the
American Cancer Society; roughly 1,500 a day, about 5,400
Kansans per year.     Solving metastasis would earn the
gratitude of millions of survivors and their loved ones.
Beck, a protein biochemist from Wichita State University, has
not solved that riddle yet, but colleagues say