Open AccessTumor Self-Seeding: Bidirectional Flow of Tumor Cells
Author(s) -
Cheuk T. Leung,
Joan S. Brugge
Publication year - 2009
Publication title -
cell
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 26.304
H-Index - 776
eISSN - 1097-4172
pISSN - 0092-8674
DOI - 10.1016/j.cell.2009.12.013
Subject(s) - biology , seeding , tumor cells , flow (mathematics) , cancer research , microbiology and biotechnology , mechanics , agronomy , physics
Circulating tumor cells are responsible for seeding metastatic growth at distant sites. Kim et al. (2009) now discover that circulating tumor cells can reinfiltrate tumors at their primary organs and promote tumor progression.
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