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Paulo Rodrigues1, Sakari Vanharanta2.
Abstract
Circulating tumor cells (CTC) are the source of metastases, but only an infinitesimal fraction of them eventually succeed in colonizing a distant organ. New results show that CD44-dependent aggregation in the circulation provides CTCs with cancer stem cell-like characteristics, suggesting an explanation for the low metastatic efficiency of CTCs, but also avenues for therapeutic intervention.See related article by Liu et al., p. 96. ©2019 American Association for Cancer Research.Entities:
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Year: 2019 PMID: 30626605 PMCID: PMC6420083 DOI: 10.1158/2159-8290.CD-18-1285
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Cancer Discov ISSN: 2159-8274 Impact factor: 39.397