Early and late events in the development of human breast cancer.

doi:10.1007/978-1-4684-5994-4_27

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Early and late events in the development of human breast cancer.

Basic life sciences - 1 Jan 1991

Smith H S, Stern R, Liu E, Benz C

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We hypothesize that early events in the development of at least some human breast cancers involve faulty epithelial-mesenchymal interactions and that the stromal cells themselves play an active role in this abnormal process. In contrast, later events accelerating breast tumor progression may occu...

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Breast Neoplasms
Cell Division
Cell Movement
Epithelium
Fibroblasts
Gene Expression Regulation, Neoplastic
Growth Substances
Humans
Hyaluronic Acid
Neoplasm Invasiveness
Neoplasm Metastasis
Neoplasm Proteins
Oncogenes
Phenotype
Skin
Transforming Growth Factor beta

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