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Metastatic colonization by circulating tumour cells

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  • Joan Massagué

    (Cancer Biology and Genetics Program, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center)

  • Anna C. Obenauf

    (Cancer Biology and Genetics Program, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
    Present address: Research Institute of Molecular Pathology, Vienna Biocenter, 1030 Vienna, Austria.)

Abstract

Metastasis is the main cause of death in people with cancer. To colonize distant organs, circulating tumour cells must overcome many obstacles through mechanisms that we are only now starting to understand. These include infiltrating distant tissue, evading immune defences, adapting to supportive niches, surviving as latent tumour-initiating seeds and eventually breaking out to replace the host tissue. They make metastasis a highly inefficient process. However, once metastases have been established, current treatments frequently fail to provide durable responses. An improved understanding of the mechanistic determinants of such colonization is needed to better prevent and treat metastatic cancer.

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  • Joan Massagué & Anna C. Obenauf, 2016. "Metastatic colonization by circulating tumour cells," Nature, Nature, vol. 529(7586), pages 298-306, January.
    • Handle: RePEc:nat:nature:v:529:y:2016:i:7586:d:10.1038_nature17038
    DOI: 10.1038/nature17038
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