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Hypotheses explaining cancer metastasis

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Cancer metastasis is the most important factor causing patients death. Cancer diseases will be controllable if metastasis does not happen. Concerning the mechanism of cancer metastasis, there are still many points to be clarified. Currently, the mechanism of cancer metastasis has been explained from several aspects of its biological behaviors. Here we briefly summarized some newly-developed metastasis models to provide a global glance at this topic.

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  1. State Key Laboratory of Molecular Oncology, Cancer Institute & Hospital, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences, Beijing, 100021, China

    Haijuan Wang, Chen Lin & Haili Qian

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Correspondence to Haili Qian.

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Supported by a grant from the National Natural Sciences Foundation of China (No. 81071773, 30973447, 30973471).

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Wang, H., Lin, C. & Qian, H. Hypotheses explaining cancer metastasis. Chin. -Ger. J. Clin. Oncol. 11, 689–690 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10330-012-1061-2

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