Article
Origins of metastatic traits.
Cancer cell - 14 Oct 2013
Vanharanta Sakari, Massagué Joan
Abstract excerpt
How cancer cells acquire the competence to colonize distant organs remains a central question in cancer biology. Tumors can release large numbers of cancer cells into the circulation, but only a small proportion of these cells survive on infiltrating distant organs and even fewer form clinically meaningful metastases. During the past decade, many predictive gene signatures and specific mediators of metastasis...
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