Dormancy of Solitary Metastatic Cells

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After arriving in a secondary site metastatic cells may begin proliferating, undergo apoptosis or remain as solitary dormant cells. The process of metastasis, although dangerous, is extremely inefficient with the majority of the cells undergoing apoptosis and thus becoming clinically irrelevant. Of the cells that begin proliferating, the few that make it past the micrometastasis stage may be of immediate clinical...

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