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27.02.2019 | Editorial
Editorial Comment: Deciphering the “Metastasome” Leads to Novel Hypotheses on Understanding the Evolution of Metastasis and Implicates Consequences for Metastasis Therapy and Prevention
verfasst von:
Heike Allgayer
Erschienen in:
Cancer Microenvironment
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Ausgabe 1/2019
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Excerpt
The utmost challenge in cancer therapy undoubtedly still is the successful combat or even prevention of metastasis, which still can arise even years after successful primary tumor therapy or already during an ongoing, even personalized therapy of a cancer patient. Still, metastases are by far the most frequent causes for cancer deaths and we still are facing a situation of rather fragmented research at metastasis, a still incomplete understanding of metastasis evolution, and clinical protocols which often are not, or cannot, be specifically designed to target the metastatically relevant tumor cell clones. …