BUFFALO, NY - August 7, 2024 – A new #editorial paper was #published in Oncotarget's Volume 15 on July 12, 2024, entitled, “How to deal with runaway metastatic disease?” In this new editorial, Justine Paris and Guilhem Bousquet from Université Paris Cité, Université Sorbonne Paris Nord, and APHP, Hôpital Avicenne, Oncologie médical, discussed how their research team have shown that PROM2 is a predictive biomarker of distant metastases and shorter survival among patients with stage III melanomas. More recently, in a large preclinical study using cancer cell lines and various mouse models of human melanomas, the researchers also demonstrated that the runaway metastatic process is closely linked to PROM2 overexpression, through the increase of epithelial-to-mesenchymal transition (EMT) marker expression and ferroptosis resistance. “We report two critical findings: (i) these findings, initially observed in melanoma, have also been confirmed in renal and breast cancers; (ii) we successfully implemented an original in vivo model of metastatic runaway in order to mimic what occurs in patients.” DOI - https://doi.org/10.18632/oncotarget.28609 Correspondence to - Guilhem Bousquet - guilhem.bousquet@aphp.fr Video short - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PQr3Hb97Brw Sign up for free Altmetric alerts about this article - https://oncotarget.altmetric.com/details/email_updates?id=10.18632%2Foncotarget.28609 Subscribe for free publication alerts from Oncotarget - https://www.oncotarget.com/subscribe/ Keywords - cancer, metastatic disease, PROM2, biomarker, tumor growth models About Oncotarget Oncotarget (a primarily oncology-focused, peer-reviewed, open access journal) aims to maximize research impact through insightful peer-review; eliminate borders between specialties by linking different fields of oncology, cancer research and biomedical sciences; and foster application of basic and clinical science. Oncotarget is indexed and archived by PubMed/Medline, PubMed Central, Scopus, EMBASE, META (Chan Zuckerberg Initiative) (2018-2022), and Dimensions (Digital Science). To learn more about Oncotarget, please visit https://www.oncotarget.com and connect with us: Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/Oncotarget/ X - https://twitter.com/oncotarget Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/oncotargetjrnl/ YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/@OncotargetJournal LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/company/oncotarget Pinterest - https://www.pinterest.com/oncotarget/ Reddit - https://www.reddit.com/user/Oncotarget/ Spotify - https://open.spotify.com/show/0gRwT6BqYWJzxzmjPJwtVh MEDIA@IMPACTJOURNALS.COM