Tumor cell dormancy: implications for the biology and treatment of breast cancer

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Despite progress made in the therapy of solid tumors such as breast cancer, the prognosis of patients even with small primary tumors is still limited by metastatic relapse often long after removal of the primary tumor. Therefore, it has been hypothesized that primary tumors shed tumor cells already at an early stage into the blood circulation. A subset of these disseminated tumor cells may persist in a state of...

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