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Seed and soil revisited: contribution of the organ microenvironment to cancer metastasis.
Surgical oncology clinics of North America - 1 Apr 2001
Fidler I J
Abstract excerpt
The outcome of cancer metastasis depends on multiple interactions (cross-talk) between selected metastatic cells and homeostatic mechanisms unique to some organ microenvironments. The organ microenvironment can influence the biology of cancer growth, angiogenesis, and metastasis in several different ways. Therapy of metastasis, therefore, should be targeted against metastatic tumor cells and the homeostatic...
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