The pathogenesis of cancer metastasis: The 'seed and soil' hypothesis revisited

Nature Reviews Cancer

Volumn 3, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 453-458

  Fidler, Isaiah J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER   (United States)

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Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; CANCER; CANCER INVASION; CANCER SURVIVAL; CELL GROWTH; GENETIC HETEROGENEITY; HYPOTHESIS; LYMPHATIC DRAINAGE; METASTASIS; MICROENVIRONMENT; MOUSE; NEOVASCULARIZATION (PATHOLOGY); NONHUMAN; PATHOGENESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; TUMOR GROWTH; ART; ARTICLE; HISTORY; HUMAN; ONCOLOGY; PATHOLOGY;

HISTORY, 19TH CENTURY; HISTORY, 20TH CENTURY; HISTORY, 21ST CENTURY; HUMANS; MEDICAL ONCOLOGY; NEOPLASM METASTASIS; PORTRAITS;

EID: 0038481970     PISSN: 1474175X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrc1098     Document Type: Review

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