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Adopted neoplastic cells and the consequences of their existence.
Oncotarget - 14 Apr 2023
Lazebnik Yuri
Abstract excerpt
A view that guides the bulk of cancer research and oncology posits that each neoplastic cell in a tumor is a genetic offspring of another neoplastic cell. Yet, analyzing tumors from transplant patients has revealed that some normal migratory cells adopt the phenotype of neoplastic cells without acquiring their genome, thus becoming what I suggest to call adopted neoplastic cells. This commentary reviews the...
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