Surgical stress and cancer progression: the twisted tango

Abstract Surgical resection is an important avenue for cancer treatment, which, in most cases, can effectively alleviate the patient symptoms. However, accumulating evidence has documented that surgical resection potentially enhances metastatic seeding of tumor cells. In this review, we revisit the...

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Main Authors: Zhiwei Chen, Peidong Zhang, Ya Xu, Jiahui Yan, Zixuan Liu, Wayne Bond Lau, Bonnie Lau, Ying Li, Xia Zhao, Yuquan Wei, Shengtao Zhou
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2019-09-01
Series:Molecular Cancer
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Online Access:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s12943-019-1058-3