id author title date pages extension mime words sentence flesch summary cache txt news-000457 Researchers to explore why cancer burden increases with age | News | Notre Dame News | University of Notre Dame .html text/html 745 19 34 The goal of the research project is to understand age-related changes that take place in the peritoneal cavity, which is where the liver, intestines, ovariesĀ and other organs reside, and how those age-associated changes may potentially foster cancer growth and prepare the body to receive cancer cells before the disease spreads. The researchers at Notre Dame will use the Mass Spectrometry and Proteomics Facility to uncover how these biomolecules may help cancer cells stick to different parts of the cavity, besides the ovaries, and therefore support the metastasis or spread of disease. cache/news-000457.html txt/news-000457.txt