Open AccessBreast Cancer Bone Metastases: It’s All about the Neighborhood
Author(s) -
Theresa Guise
Publication year - 2013
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.2013.08.020
Subject(s) - biology , breast cancer , cancer , cancer research , oncology , medicine , genetics
In order to establish themselves in distal sites, metastatic cancer cells need to acquire organ-specific traits. Zhang et al. provide evidence in breast cancer that a tumor cell's acquisition of properties for successful bone metastasis is influenced by signals from the stroma of the primary tumor.
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