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Staying together on the road to metastasis

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Most deaths from breast cancer occur when the primary tumour spreads to secondary sites. It now emerges that clusters of tumour cells that enter the bloodstream form metastases more often than single circulating tumour cells.

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Figure 1: Circulating tumour cells and their clusters.

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  1. Alessia Bottos and Nancy E. Hynes are at the Friedrich Miescher Institute for Biomedical Research, 4058 Basel, Switzerland.,

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Bottos, A., Hynes, N. Staying together on the road to metastasis. Nature 514, 309–310 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1038/514309a

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