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A new hypothesis: some metastases are the result of inflammatory processes by adapted cells, especially adapted immune cells at sites of inflammation
There is an old hypothesis that metastasis is the result of migration of tumor cells from the tumor to a distant site. In this article, we propose another mechanism for metastasis, for cancers that are initiated at the site of chronic inflammation. We suggest that cells at the site of chronic inflam...
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| Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
| Lenguaje: | English |
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F1000Research
2016
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| Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4847566/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27158448 http://dx.doi.org/10.12688/f1000research.8055.1 |