Molecular biology of breast cancer metastasis. 'Has it spread?': Disarming one of the most terrifying questions

Breast Cancer Research

Volumn 2, Issue 6, 2000, Pages 396-399

  Steeg, P S ^a  

^a NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

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Indexed keywords

ANGIOGENESIS; ANIMAL CELL; APOPTOSIS; BREAST CANCER; CANCER INVASION; CANCER RESEARCH; CELL HETEROGENEITY; CELL INTERACTION; CELL LINEAGE; ENDOTHELIUM CELL; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX; IN VITRO STUDY; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; METASTASIS; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PARACRINE SIGNALING; REVIEW; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SUPPRESSOR GENE; TARGET CELL; TISSUE INTERACTION;

ANIMALS; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CARCINOMA; CELL ADHESION; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX; FEMALE; GENES, TUMOR SUPPRESSOR; HUMANS; INFLAMMATION; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; MALE; MAMMARY NEOPLASMS, EXPERIMENTAL; MELANOMA; MICROSCOPY, VIDEO; NEOPLASM CIRCULATING CELLS; NEOPLASM METASTASIS; NEOPLASM PROTEINS; NEOVASCULARIZATION, PATHOLOGIC; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS; TRANSFECTION; UVEAL NEOPLASMS;

EID: 0034468125     PISSN: 14655411     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/bcr85     Document Type: Review

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