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organs, and to respond to local growth<br />

factors once they have extravasated. It<br />

used to be thought that escape from the<br />

primary tumour and survival in the circulation<br />

were the major rate-limiting steps<br />

for successful metastasis. However, while<br />

there is a good deal of attrition at these<br />

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chain reaction (PCR), individual tumour<br />

cells (or specific genetic markers) can be<br />

found in blood, nodes, bone marrow, body<br />

fluids etc, but the significance of “positive”<br />

results, and whether they can be<br />

used to predict subsequent overt metastases<br />

is not yet established.<br />

WEBSITE<br />

The Metastasis Research Society (UK):<br />

http://www.metastasis.icr.ac.uk<br />

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