Article
Accelerated genetic destabilization and dormancy: two distinct causes of resistance in metastatic cells; clinical magnitude, therapeutic approaches.
Clinical & experimental metastasis - 1 Jan 2000
Israel L
Abstract excerpt
Several years of clinical chemotherapy have shown that, despite modern refinements, cytotoxic agents are not able to eradicate metastases of most adult solid tumors but only to prolong survival by achieving a cell kill that is not 100 per cent. Among the possible causes of this phenomenon, two are discussed in detail. The first one is cell autonomy. It is shown that the numbers of generations reached by a...
Topics
- Cell Division
- Drug Resistance
- Humans
- Mutation
- Neoplasm Metastasis
- Neoplasms
