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Ecological paradigms to understand the dynamics of metastasis.
Cancer letters - 28 Sept 2016
Amend Sarah R, Roy Sounak, Brown Joel S, Pienta Kenneth J
Abstract excerpt
The process by which prostate cancer cells non-randomly disseminate to the bone to form lethal metastases remains unknown. Metastasis is the ultimate consequence of the long-range dispersal of a cancer cell from the primary tumor to a distant secondary site. In order to metastasize, the actively emigrating cell must move. Movement ecology describes an individual's migration between habitats without the...
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