Does the act of surgery provoke activation of "latent" metastases in early breast cancer?

This paper is written in support of the challenging article by Retsky and colleagues in this issue of Breast Cancer Research, and develops on the idea that the act of surgery can provoke the outgrowth of dormant micrometastases, which often leads to the failure of screening to deliver its promise. T...

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Autor principal: Baum, Michael
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2004
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC468671/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15217487
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/bcr902
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description This paper is written in support of the challenging article by Retsky and colleagues in this issue of Breast Cancer Research, and develops on the idea that the act of surgery can provoke the outgrowth of dormant micrometastases, which often leads to the failure of screening to deliver its promise. The therapeutic consequence of this idea involves the use of antiangiogenic drugs before surgery.
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spelling pubmed-4686712004-07-16 Does the act of surgery provoke activation of "latent" metastases in early breast cancer? Baum, Michael Breast Cancer Res Commentary This paper is written in support of the challenging article by Retsky and colleagues in this issue of Breast Cancer Research, and develops on the idea that the act of surgery can provoke the outgrowth of dormant micrometastases, which often leads to the failure of screening to deliver its promise. The therapeutic consequence of this idea involves the use of antiangiogenic drugs before surgery. BioMed Central 2004 2004-06-09 /pmc/articles/PMC468671/ /pubmed/15217487 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/bcr902 Text en Copyright © 2004 BioMed Central Ltd
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Does the act of surgery provoke activation of "latent" metastases in early breast cancer?
title Does the act of surgery provoke activation of "latent" metastases in early breast cancer?
title_full Does the act of surgery provoke activation of "latent" metastases in early breast cancer?
title_fullStr Does the act of surgery provoke activation of "latent" metastases in early breast cancer?
title_full_unstemmed Does the act of surgery provoke activation of "latent" metastases in early breast cancer?
title_short Does the act of surgery provoke activation of "latent" metastases in early breast cancer?
title_sort does the act of surgery provoke activation of "latent" metastases in early breast cancer?
topic Commentary
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC468671/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15217487
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/bcr902
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