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Predicting the tumorigenic phenotype of human bladder cancer cells by combining with fetal rat mesenchyme.
Urologic oncology - 1 Oct 2018
Miki Manabu, Ishii Kenichiro, Sasaki Takeshi, Kato Manabu, Kajiwara Shinya, Kanda Hideki, Arima Kiminobu, Hirokawa Yoshifumi, Watanabe Masatoshi, Sugimura Yoshiki
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BACKGROUND: In nonmuscle invasive bladder cancer patients, prediction of pTa and pT1 bladder cancer recurrence and progression must be established. Micropapillary structures have been defined as small clusters of invasive cancer cells having features of the epithelial-mesenchymal transition. Since the stromal microenvironment helps to induce the epithelial-mesenchymal transition, interactions between cancer cells...
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