[Metastatic dissemination of cancer cells].

Abstract excerpt

During the natural history of a tumor, cancer cells become more and more aggressive and their increasing malignancy leads usually to the patient's death. The expression of malignant properties by tumor cells is manifested by the occurrence of metastases and is the result of an overexpression of molecules that are normally or barely non expressed by the normal cell progenitors. These molecules can be involved in...

Topics

• Animals
• Mice
• Neoplasm Metastasis
• Neovascularization, Pathologic
• Phenotype