The acquisition by tumor cells of the ability to metastasize is the critical event in the clinical course of most human neoplastic disease. While metastasis plays a pivotal role in the ultimate success or failure of therapy, it is in fact a result of a more insidious malignant process termed tumor p
Origin and biology of cancer metastasis
โ Scribed by Isaiah J. Fidler
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 1989
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 955 KB
- Volume
- 10
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0196-4763
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