En Route to Metastasis: Circulating Tumor Cell Clusters and Epithelial-to-Mesenchymal Transition

Trends in Cancer

Volumn 1, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 44-52

  Aceto, Nicola ^a   Toner, Mehmet ^a,b   Maheswaran, Shyamala ^a   Haber, Daniel A ^a,c  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b SHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN   (United States)

^c HOWARD HUGHES MEDICAL INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

TUMOR ANTIGEN;

CANCER CELL; CANCER GROWTH; CELL ISOLATION; CELL JUNCTION; CELL SURVIVAL; CIRCULATING TUMOR CELL; CIRCULATION TIME; EPITHELIAL MESENCHYMAL TRANSITION; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; METASTASIS; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; REVIEW;

EID: 84949045216     PISSN: 24058033     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.trecan.2015.07.006     Document Type: Review

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