Mechanisms Governing Metastatic Dormancy and Reactivation

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Towards understanding cancer dormancy over strategic hitching up mechanisms to technologies

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Unveiling the role of cellular dormancy in cancer progression and recurrence

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Target irradiation induced bystander effects between stem-like and non stem-like cancer cells

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Age as key factor for pattern, timing, and extent of distant metastasis in patients with cutaneous melanoma: A study of the German Central Malignant Melanoma Registry

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Inhibition of resistant triple-negative breast cancer cells with low-dose 6-mercaptopurine and 5-azacitidine

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HN1L promotes stem cell‐like properties by regulating TGF‐β signaling pathway through targeting FOXP2 in prostate cancer

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Effects of Different Tissue Microenvironments on Gene Expression in Breast Cancer Cells

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Mechanical Regulation of Mitochondrial Dynamics and Function in a 3D-Engineered Liver Tumor Microenvironment

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How modulation of the tumor microenvironment drives cancer immune escape dynamics

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Basic and clinical associations between bone and cancer

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Down-Regulation of lncRNA MBNL1-AS1 Promotes Tumor Stem Cell-like Characteristics and Prostate Cancer Progression through miR-221-3p/CDKN1B/C-myc Axis

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The metastatic niche formation: focus on extracellular vesicle-mediated dialogue between lung cancer cells and the microenvironment

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Machine learning-identified stemness features and constructed stemness-related subtype with prognosis, chemotherapy, and immunotherapy responses for non-small cell lung cancer patients

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Varying the RGD concentration on a hyaluronic acid hydrogel influences dormancy versus proliferation in brain metastatic breast cancer cells

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Dormancy of cutaneous melanoma

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Genomic and Epigenomic Biomarkers of Immune Checkpoint Immunotherapy Response in Melanoma: Current and Future Perspectives

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Integrating model systems and genomic insights to decipher mechanisms of cancer metastasis

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New ZW4864 Derivatives as Small-Molecule Inhibitors for the β-Catenin/BCL9 Protein–Protein Interaction

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Inhibition of WNT signaling by conjugated microRNA nano-carriers: A new therapeutic approach for treating triple-negative breast cancer a perspective review

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Variations in genes involved in dormancy associated with outcome in patients with resected colorectal liver metastases

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A Novel Model of Pancreatic Cancer Dormancy Reveals Mechanistic Insights and a Dormancy Gene Signature with Human RelevancePreprint

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Targeted antitumor therapy mediated by prodrug-activating mesenchymal stromal cells

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Cancer Stem Cells and Combination Therapies to Eradicate Them

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A high-throughput screen identifies inhibitors of lung cancer stem cells

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The genomic signature of resistance to platinum-containing neoadjuvant therapy based on single-cell data

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Novel Strategies for Breast Cancer Imaging: New Imaging Agents to Guide Treatment

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Unravelling the complexity of signalling networks in cancer: A review of the increasing role for computational modelling

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Next-generation immunotherapies for brain metastatic cancers

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Targeting oncogene-induced cellular plasticity for tumor therapy

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Molecular Mechanisms Underlying the Role of Galectin-8 as a Regulator of Cancer Growth and Metastasis

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Cellular Senescence-Inducing Small Molecules for Cancer Treatment

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Tuning Hydrogel Adhesivity and Degradability to Model the Influence of Premetastatic Niche Matrix Properties on Breast Cancer Dormancy and Reactivation

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Integrative microphysiological tissue systems of cancer metastasis to the liver

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Cancer Stem Cells and Glioblastoma: Time for Innovative Biomarkers of Radio-Resistance?

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Patterns of de novo metastasis and survival outcomes by age in breast cancer patients: a SEER population-based study

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Splicing inhibition mediated by reduced splicing factors and helicases is associated with the cellular response of lung cancer cells to cisplatin

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Metastasis and the Microbiome: The Impact of Bacteria in Disseminated Colorectal Cancer

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The glutathione S-transferase Gstt1 drives survival and dissemination in metastases

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Exploring bone-tumor interactions through 3D in vitro models: Implications for primary and metastatic cancers

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Sorting‐free metabolic profiling uncovers the vulnerability of fatty acid β‐oxidation in in vitro quiescence models

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Blocking transmembrane219 protein signaling inhibits autophagy and restores normal cell death

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Role of traditional chinese medicine and its chemical components in anti-tumor metastasis

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Breast cancer and amyloid bodies: is there a role for amyloidosis in cancer-cell dormancy?

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Influence of transcriptional variants on metastasis

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The role of cellular quiescence in cancer – beyond a quiet passenger

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Implication of the Extracellular Matrix in Metastatic Tumor Cell Dormancy

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Statins as Secondary Preventive Agent to Limit Breast Cancer Metastatic Outgrowth

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Technical Advancements for Studying Immune Regulation of Disseminated Dormant Cancer Cells

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The role of RNA processing and regulation in metastatic dormancy

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Association of Time From Primary Diagnosis to First Distant Relapse of Metastatic Melanoma With Progression of Disease and Survival

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Evaluation of 6-mercaptopurine in a cell culture model of adaptable triple-negative breast cancer with metastatic potential

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High FRMD3 expression is prognostic for worse survival in rectal cancer patients treated with CCRT

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The Emerging Role of Local Therapy in Metastatic Prostate Cancer

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Cancer stem cells: Recent trends in cancer therapy

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Roles of the NR2F Family in the Development, Disease, and Cancer of the Lung

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Formation of pre-metastatic bone niche in prostate cancer and regulation of traditional chinese medicine

Chen, C., Huang, R., Zhou, J., Guo, L., & Xiang, S. (2022) · Frontiers in Pharmacology · doi:10.3389/fphar.2022.897942 · Cited by 10

iPSC-Derived Glioblastoma Cells Have Enhanced Stemness Wnt/β-Catenin Activity Which Is Negatively Regulated by Wnt Antagonist sFRP4

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MicroRNAs and RNA-Binding Protein-Based Regulation of Bone Metastasis from Hepatobiliary Cancers and Potential Therapeutic Strategies

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Proposed Models for Prediction of Mortality in Stage-I and Stage-II Gastric Cancer and 5 Years after Radical Gastrectomy

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Clonal dominance defines metastatic dissemination in pancreatic cancer

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Engineering Mammary Gland in Vitro Models for Cancer Diagnostics and Therapy

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Mutational analysis of metastatic lymph nodes from papillary thyroid carcinoma in adult and pediatric patients

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Epigenetic Regulation of Cancer Dormancy as a Plasticity Mechanism for Metastasis Initiation

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Post‐mortem tissue donation programs as platforms to accelerate cancer research

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Cancer Cell enters reversible quiescence through Intracellular Acidification to resist Paclitaxel Cytotoxicity

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How much do we know about the metastatic process?

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The molecular features of lung cancer stem cells in dedifferentiation process-driven epigenetic alterations

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CD105 blockade restores osimertinib sensitivity in drug-resistant EGFR-mutant non-small cell lung cancer

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