TUMOR-INTRINSIC INFLAMMATORY PATHWAYS ASSOCIATED WITH TUMOR DORMANCY AND RECURRENCE

The successful treatment of breast cancer is limited due to a fraction of tumor cells escaping drug-treatment by entering a dormant state, only to relapse years or decades later at distant sites. Host-driven chronic inflammatory cells such as M2 macrophages play an important role in tumorigenesis, b...

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Main Author: Butler, Savannah E
Format: Others
Published: VCU Scholars Compass 2017
Online Access:http://scholarscompass.vcu.edu/etd/4753
http://scholarscompass.vcu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=5815&context=etd