Article
The process of malignant progression in human breast cancer.
Annals of oncology : official journal of the European Society for Medical Oncology - 1 Nov 1990
Clarke R, Dickson R B, Brünner N
Abstract excerpt
Malignant progression in breast cancer represents the processes through which localized, hormone-dependent tumor cells become resistant to endocrine manipulations and metastasize to sites distant from the primary tumor. By selection in ovariectomized athymic nude mice, we have isolated a variant (MIII) of the hormone-dependent, poorly invasive, human breast cancer cell line MCF-7. MIII cells have lost their...
Topics
- Animals
- Breast Neoplasms
- Cell Transformation, Neoplastic
- Estrogens
- Female
- Humans
- Mice
- Mice, Nude
- Phenotype
- Tumor Cells, Cultured
