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Surgery Triggers Outgrowth of Latent Distant Disease in Breast Cancer: An Inconvenient Truth?
We review our work over the past 14 years that began when we were first confronted with bimodal relapse patterns in two breast cancer databases from different countries. These data were unexplainable with the accepted continuous tumor growth paradigm. To explain these data, we proposed that metastat...
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Molecular Diversity Preservation International
2010
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3835080/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24281072 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/cancers2020305 |
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author | Retsky, Michael Demicheli, Romano Hrushesky, William Baum, Michael Gukas, Isaac |
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description | We review our work over the past 14 years that began when we were first confronted with bimodal relapse patterns in two breast cancer databases from different countries. These data were unexplainable with the accepted continuous tumor growth paradigm. To explain these data, we proposed that metastatic breast cancer growth commonly includes periods of temporary dormancy at both the single cell phase and the avascular micrometastasis phase. We also suggested that surgery to remove the primary tumor often terminates dormancy resulting in accelerated relapses. These iatrogenic events are apparently very common in that over half of all metastatic relapses progress in that manner. Assuming this is true, there should be ample and clear evidence in clinical data. We review here the breast cancer paradigm from a variety of historical, clinical, and scientific perspectives and consider how dormancy and surgery-driven escape from dormancy would be observed and what this would mean. Dormancy can be identified in these diverse data but most conspicuous is the sudden synchronized escape from dormancy following primary surgery. On the basis of our findings, we suggest a new paradigm for early stage breast cancer. We also suggest a new treatment that is meant to stabilize and preserve dormancy rather than attempt to kill all cancer cells as is the present strategy. |
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spelling | pubmed-38350802013-11-21 Surgery Triggers Outgrowth of Latent Distant Disease in Breast Cancer: An Inconvenient Truth? Retsky, Michael Demicheli, Romano Hrushesky, William Baum, Michael Gukas, Isaac Cancers (Basel) Review We review our work over the past 14 years that began when we were first confronted with bimodal relapse patterns in two breast cancer databases from different countries. These data were unexplainable with the accepted continuous tumor growth paradigm. To explain these data, we proposed that metastatic breast cancer growth commonly includes periods of temporary dormancy at both the single cell phase and the avascular micrometastasis phase. We also suggested that surgery to remove the primary tumor often terminates dormancy resulting in accelerated relapses. These iatrogenic events are apparently very common in that over half of all metastatic relapses progress in that manner. Assuming this is true, there should be ample and clear evidence in clinical data. We review here the breast cancer paradigm from a variety of historical, clinical, and scientific perspectives and consider how dormancy and surgery-driven escape from dormancy would be observed and what this would mean. Dormancy can be identified in these diverse data but most conspicuous is the sudden synchronized escape from dormancy following primary surgery. On the basis of our findings, we suggest a new paradigm for early stage breast cancer. We also suggest a new treatment that is meant to stabilize and preserve dormancy rather than attempt to kill all cancer cells as is the present strategy. Molecular Diversity Preservation International 2010-03-30 /pmc/articles/PMC3835080/ /pubmed/24281072 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/cancers2020305 Text en © 2010 by the authors; licensee Molecular Diversity Preservation International, Basel, Switzerland. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/). |
spellingShingle | Review Retsky, Michael Demicheli, Romano Hrushesky, William Baum, Michael Gukas, Isaac Surgery Triggers Outgrowth of Latent Distant Disease in Breast Cancer: An Inconvenient Truth? |
title | Surgery Triggers Outgrowth of Latent Distant Disease in Breast Cancer: An Inconvenient Truth? |
title_full | Surgery Triggers Outgrowth of Latent Distant Disease in Breast Cancer: An Inconvenient Truth? |
title_fullStr | Surgery Triggers Outgrowth of Latent Distant Disease in Breast Cancer: An Inconvenient Truth? |
title_full_unstemmed | Surgery Triggers Outgrowth of Latent Distant Disease in Breast Cancer: An Inconvenient Truth? |
title_short | Surgery Triggers Outgrowth of Latent Distant Disease in Breast Cancer: An Inconvenient Truth? |
title_sort | surgery triggers outgrowth of latent distant disease in breast cancer: an inconvenient truth? |
topic | Review |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3835080/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24281072 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/cancers2020305 |
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