Selection and adaptation during metastatic cancer progression

Nature

Volumn 501, Issue 7467, 2013, Pages 365-372

  Klein, Christoph A ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF REGENSBURG   (Germany)

^b FRAUNHOFER INSTITUTE FOR TOXICOLOGY AND EXPERIMENTAL MEDICINE   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYTOKERATIN 18; CYTOKERATIN 19; CYTOKERATIN 8; EPIDERMAL GROWTH FACTOR RECEPTOR 2; EPITHELIAL CELL ADHESION MOLECULE;

ADAPTATION; CANCER; MUTATION; RANGE EXPANSION; SELECTION; TUMOR;

ADAPTATION; ADVANCED CANCER; BREAST CANCER; CANCER CELL; CARCINOGENESIS; CELL CONTACT; CELL DENSITY; CHROMOSOME 17P; CHROMOSOME 8P; CHROMOSOME ABERRATION; CHROMOSOME BREAKAGE; CHROMOSOME LOSS; CIRCULATING TUMOR CELL; DISSEMINATED CANCER; DISTANT METASTASIS; EARLY CANCER; GENETIC SELECTION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HUMAN; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; METASTASIS; MICROMETASTASIS; POINT MUTATION; PRIMARY TUMOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE CANCER; REVIEW; TELOMERE;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; CHORISTOMA; CLONAL EVOLUTION; DISEASE PROGRESSION; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENOME, HUMAN; HUMANS; MUTATION; NEOPLASM METASTASIS; NEOPLASMS; SELECTION, GENETIC; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84884369881     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature12628     Document Type: Review

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