Metastasis: From dissemination to organ-specific colonization

Nature Reviews Cancer

Volumn 9, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 274-284

  Nguyen, Don X ^a   Bos, Paula D ^a   Massagué, Joan ^a  

^a MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ERLOTINIB; GEFITINIB; TRASTUZUMAB;

BREAST CANCER; CANCER CELL; CELL INFILTRATION; DISEASE COURSE; HOST; HUMAN; METASTASIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; TUMOR GENE;

HUMANS; NEOPLASM METASTASIS; NEOPLASMS;

EID: 63049090100     PISSN: 1474175X     EISSN: 14741768     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrc2622     Document Type: Review

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