The role of the tumour microenvironment in the biology of head and neck cancer: Lessons from mobile tongue cancer

Nature Reviews Cancer

Volumn 11, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 382-

  Vered, Marilena ^a,b   Dayan, Dan ^a   Salo, Tuula ^c  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^b SHEBA MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OULU   (Finland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CANCER CELL; CANCER SURVIVAL; CARCINOGENESIS; HEAD AND NECK CANCER; HUMAN; LETTER; METASTASIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TONGUE CANCER; TUMOR MICROENVIRONMENT; WART VIRUS;

HEAD AND NECK NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; TONGUE NEOPLASMS; TUMOR MICROENVIRONMENT;

EID: 79955463141     PISSN: 1474175X     EISSN: 14741768     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrc2982-c1     Document Type: Letter

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