Role of cancer microenvironment in metastasis: Focus on colon cancer

Cancer Microenvironment

Volumn 1, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 69-83

  Gout, Stéphanie ^a   Huot, Jacques ^a  

^a LAVAL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Colon cancer; Colonization; EMT MET; Metastasis

Indexed keywords

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT; BEVACIZUMAB; CELL MARKER; MEMBRANE RECEPTOR;

ADAPTIVE IMMUNITY; CANCER CELL; CANCER CLASSIFICATION; CANCER GROWTH; CANCER INVASION; CARCINOGENESIS; CELL INTERACTION; CIRCULATION; COLORECTAL CARCINOMA; EPITHELIUM CELL; EXTRAVASATION; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC REGULATION; HUMAN; MESENCHYME CELL; METASTASIS; MICROENVIRONMENT; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTO ONCOGENE; REVIEW; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; STROMA CELL; TUMOR SUPPRESSOR GENE;

EID: 58649089340     PISSN: 18752292     EISSN: 18752284     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12307-008-0007-2     Document Type: Review

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