Mechanisms and Potential Biomarkers of Tumor Cell Dormancy Identified

Oncologists have long puzzled over the fact that after cancer treatment, in certain organs, single cancer cells that are dispersed throughout the body - so-called disseminated tumor cells - are quick to grow and form secondary tumors called metastases. While in other organs they metastasize more slowly, sometimes decades later. Such is the case with head and neck squamous cell carcinoma (HNSCC) cells, which remain dormant when lodged in bone marrow but rapidly ...

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