MOBILE, Alabama (June 4, 2026) — Researchers at the Frederick P. Whiddon College of Medicine led a study to explore a mechanism that leads to the spread of gastric cancer, also known as stomach cancer.
The research, published recently in the scientific journal Cancer Letters, identifies a new molecular mechanism that explains how gastric cancer cells lose cell-to-cell adhesion and metastasize, or spread to other parts of the body.
The work was led by Debanjan Chakroborty, Ph.D., assistant professor of pathology at the Whiddon College of Medicine, and included other pathology faculty and researchers at the USA Health Mitchell Cancer Institute (MCI) at the Whiddon College of Medicine, as well as researchers at The Ohio State University. Sooraj Kakkat, Ph.D., is the lead author of the article…