Bring along your friends: Homotypic and heterotypic circulating tumor cell clustering to accelerate metastasis
Metastasis formation is a hallmark of invasive cancers and it is achieved through the shedding of circulating tumor cells (CTCs) from the primary site into the blood circulation. There, CTCs are found as single cells or as multicellular clusters, with clusters carrying an elevated ability to survive...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Elsevier
2020-02-01
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Series: | Biomedical Journal |
Online Access: | http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2319417019305086 |