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Epithelial-mesenchymal transition in cancer metastasis through the lymphatic syste

Karlsson, Mikael C. ; Gonzalez, Santiago F. ; Welin, Josefin ; Fuxe, Jonas

In: Molecular oncology, 2017, vol. 11, p. 781–791

It was already in the 18th century when the French surgeon LeDran first noted that breast cancer patients with spread of tumor cells to their axillary lymph nodes had a drastically worse prognosis than patients without spread (LeDran et al., ). Since then, metastatic spread of cancer cells to regional lymph nodes has been established as the most important prognostic factor in many types of...