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Biophysical phenotype mixtures reveal advantages for tumor muscle invasion in vivo.
Biophysical journal - 7 Nov 2023
Marr Kendra D, Gard Jaime M C, Harryman William L, Keeswood Elijah J, Paxson Allan I, Wolgemuth Charles, Knudsen Beatrice S, Nagle Raymond B, Hazlehurst Lori, Sorbellini Maximiliano, Cress Anne E
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Bladder, colon, gastric, prostate, and uterine cancers originate in organs surrounded by laminin-coated smooth muscle. In human prostate cancer, tumors that are organ confined, without extracapsular extension through muscle, have an overall cancer survival rate of up to 97% compared with 32% for metastatic disease. Our previous work modeling extracapsular extension reported the blocking of tumor invasion by...
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