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Fusion of bone marrow-derived cells with cancer cells: metastasis as a secondary disease in cancer
被引:24
|作者:
Pawelek, John M.
[1
,2
]
机构:
[1] Yale Univ, Sch Med, Dept Dermatol, New Haven, CT 06520 USA
[2] Yale Univ, Sch Med, Yale Canc Ctr, New Haven, CT 06520 USA
关键词:
Bone marrow-derived cell-cancer cell hybrids;
metastasis;
cell fusion;
BETA-1,6-BRANCHED OLIGOSACCHARIDES;
HYBRIDS;
TUMOR;
MELANIN;
D O I:
10.5732/cjc.013.10243
中图分类号:
R73 [肿瘤学];
学科分类号:
100214 ;
摘要:
This perspective article highlights the leukocyte-cancer cell hybrid theory as a mechanism for cancer metastasis. Beginning from the first proposal of the theory more than a century ago and continuing today with the first proof for this theory in a human cancer, the hybrid theory offers a unifying explanation for metastasis. In this scenario, leukocyte fusion with a cancer cell is a secondary disease superimposed upon the early tumor, giving birth to a new, malignant cell with a leukocyte-cancer cell hybrid epigenome.
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页码:133 / 139
页数:7
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