Breast cancer as a systemic disease: A view of metastasis

Journal of Internal Medicine

Volumn 274, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 113-126

  Redig, A J ^a   Mcallister, S S ^a,b,c  

^a BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b HARVARD STEM CELL INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c BROAD INSTITUTE OF MIT AND HARVARD   (United States)

Author keywords

Breast cancer; Disseminated tumour cells; Metastasis; Systemic instigation; Tumour dormancy; Tumour microenvironment

Indexed keywords

ACETYLSALICYLIC ACID; BEVACIZUMAB; OSTEOPONTIN; TAMOXIFEN; TRASTUZUMAB;

ANGIOGENESIS; BREAST CANCER; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER CLASSIFICATION; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CANCER GROWTH; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER PROGNOSIS; CANCER STAGING; CIRCULATING TUMOR CELL; DISTANT METASTASIS; HEMATOPOIETIC CELL; HUMAN; HYPOXIA; METASTASIS; MICROMETASTASIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SYSTEMIC DISEASE; TRIPLE NEGATIVE BREAST CANCER;

BREAST CANCER; DISSEMINATED TUMOUR CELLS; METASTASIS; SYSTEMIC INSTIGATION; TUMOUR DORMANCY; TUMOUR MICROENVIRONMENT;

ANIMALS; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CARCINOMA, DUCTAL, BREAST; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAMMARY NEOPLASMS, EXPERIMENTAL; NEOPLASM INVASIVENESS; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; NEOPLASM STAGING; NEOVASCULARIZATION, PATHOLOGIC; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 84880346637     PISSN: 09546820     EISSN: 13652796     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/joim.12084     Document Type: Review

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