Cancer cells devouring their neighbours to survive drug treatment is an abhorrent concept. Yet it holds hope for exploring new anticancer treatments. Tonnessen-Murray et al. adopted elegant cell-labelling methods using real-time microscopy to observe ‘cellular gorging’ by drug-treated cells. They discovered that in response to drug treatment, cells that became ‘cannibals’ were able to outlive their unindulged neighbours.

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乳腺癌中的自相残杀：暴饮暴食的危险。

癌细胞吞噬自己的邻居，使他们在药物治疗中幸存下来是一个令人讨厌的概念。然而，它有希望探索新的抗癌治疗方法。Tonnessen-Murray等。通过实时显微镜采用优雅的细胞标记方法来观察药物处理细胞的“细胞分化”。他们发现，对药物治疗作出反应后，变成“食人族”的细胞能够存活下来，使其无情的邻居变得更长寿。