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Osteomimicry: how tumor cells try to deceive the bone.
Frontiers in bioscience (Scholar edition) - 1 Jun 2010
Rucci Nadia, Teti Anna
Abstract excerpt
Bone metastases are complications of multiple myeloma and solid tumors, including breast and prostate carcinomas. Several reports have demonstrated that the preference to metastasize to bone by tumor cells is not a casual but an addressed event, which relies on specific interactions among tumor cells, bone marrow microenvironment and bone cells. One of the features that gives tumor cells more chances to survive...
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