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Metastatic inefficiency

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Tumor Invasion and Metastasis

Part of the book series: Developments in Oncology ((DION,volume 7))

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Any operational definition of metastatic efficiency must surely focus on the capacity of a cancer to generate clinically overt metastases during the lifetime of its host. The latter qualification will appear less curious to experimentalists than clinicians, since the former have the opportunity to make bioassays on apparently normal organs for metastatic cancer cells in fresh hosts, and thus achieve a sensitivity of detection which may have little clinical relevance.

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  2. Frederick Cancer Research Center, Frederick, Maryland, USA

    I. R. Hart

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Weiss, L. (1982). Metastatic inefficiency. In: Liotta, L.A., Hart, I.R. (eds) Tumor Invasion and Metastasis. Developments in Oncology, vol 7. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-7511-8_6

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