Tumour-derived miRNAs and bone metastasis

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Skeletal metastases are complications of epithelial cancers, among which breast, prostate and lung carcinomas are the most osteotropic. In primary tumours, a subset of cancer cells undergoes epithelial-mesenchymal transition, acquires mobility to migrate into the surrounding stroma and seeds at distant sites to grow. The specific development of bone metastasis requires the recruitment of circulating tumour cells...

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