Selection and adaptation during metastatic cancer progression

Christoph A. Klein ()
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Christoph A. Klein: Experimental Medicine and Therapy Research, University of Regensburg

Nature, 2013, vol. 501, issue 7467, 365-372

Abstract: Abstract Cancer is often regarded as a process of asexual evolution driven by genomic and genetic instability. Mutation, selection and adaptation are by convention thought to occur primarily within, and to a lesser degree outside, the primary tumour. However, disseminated cancer cells that remain after 'curative' surgery exhibit extreme genomic heterogeneity before the manifestation of metastasis. This heterogeneity is later reduced by selected clonal expansion, suggesting that the disseminated cells had yet to acquire key traits of fully malignant cells. Abrogation of the cells' progression outside the primary tumour implies new challenges and opportunities for diagnosis and adjuvant therapies.

Date: 2013
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