Erschienen in:
01.02.2005 | Viewpoint
The evolving paradigm of tissue-specific metastasis
verfasst von:
Theresa A DiMeo, Charlotte Kuperwasser
Erschienen in:
Breast Cancer Research
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Ausgabe 1/2005
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Excerpt
Breast cancer frequently metastasizes to bone, lung, liver, and brain, which is the major cause of morbidity and mortality associated with the disease [
1]. The propensity with which breast cancer associates with certain tissue types in advanced stages of malignancy suggests a molecular basis for this attraction, but the mechanism remains unknown. …