The pathogenesis of cancer metastasis
- 10 January 1980
- journal article
- review article
- Published by Springer Nature in Nature
- Vol. 283 (5743) , 139-146
- https://doi.org/10.1038/283139a0
Abstract
Metastases do not result from random survival of cells released from the primary tumour but from the selective growth of specialised subpopulations of highly metastatic cells endowed with specific properties that befit them to complete each step of the metastatic process.Keywords
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