Cancer cell fusion with migratory bone marrow-derived cells as an explanation for metastasis: New therapeutic paradigms

Future Oncology

Volumn 4, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 449-452

  Pawelek, John M ^a  

^a YALE CANCER CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

BETA 1,6 BRANCHED OLIGOSACCHARIDE; OLIGOSACCHARIDE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AUTOPHAGY; BONE MARROW CELL; BONE MARROW TRANSPLANTATION; CANCER CELL; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER SURVIVAL; CELL DIVISION; CELL FUSION; CELL MIGRATION; CYTOSKELETON; EDITORIAL; GLYCOSYLATION; HUMAN; LEUKOCYTE; LEUKOCYTE MIGRATION; MACROPHAGE; MALIGNANT NEOPLASTIC DISEASE; MELANOMA CELL; METASTASIS; NONHUMAN; PATHOGENESIS; PHAGOCYTE; PHAGOSOME; PRIMARY TUMOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION; TUMOR GROWTH;

ANIMALS; AUTOPHAGY; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; CELL FUSION; CELL MOVEMENT; FEMALE; GLYCOSYLATION; HUMANS; HYBRID CELLS; LEUKOCYTES; MACROPHAGES; MALE; MELANINS; MELANOMA; MICE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; N-ACETYLGLUCOSAMINYLTRANSFERASES; NEOPLASM METASTASIS; NEOPLASM PROTEINS; NEOPLASM TRANSPLANTATION; NEOPLASTIC STEM CELLS; OLIGOSACCHARIDES;

EID: 55349096775     PISSN: 14796694     EISSN: 17448301     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2217/14796694.4.4.449     Document Type: Editorial

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