Epithelial-mesenchymal transition transcription factors and miRNAs: “Plastic surgeons” of breast cancer

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Growing evidence suggests that breast cancer cell plasticity arises due to a partial reactivation of epithelial-mesenchymal transition (EMT) programs in order to give cells pluripotency, leading to a stemness-like phenotype. A complete EMT would be a dead end program that would render cells unable to fully metastasize to distant organs. Evoking the EMT-mesenchymal-to-epithelial transition (MET) cascade promotes...

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