Mechanisms, potential biomarkers of tumor cell dormancy
Monday, October 28, 2013 - 09:50
in Health & Medicine
Oncologists have long puzzled over the fact that after cancer treatment, single cancer cells that are dispersed throughout the body -- so-called disseminated tumor cells -- are quick to grow and form secondary tumors called metastases in certain organs, while in other organs they metastasize more slowly, sometimes decades later.