[The metastatic process: history, models and recent advances].

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The onset of metastasis is a critical event in the natural history of cancer, and is generally associated with a poor clinical outcome. Mechanistically, the metastatic process is made of several steps that are biologically distinct and now rather well characterized. Several explanatory models have been proposed: selective models (clonal selection), adaptive models (initial oncogenesis), involvement of tumor...

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