Hypoxia in primary tumors influences dormant DTCs that evade cancer therapy, study sh

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In a first of its kind study, Mount Sinai researchers have discovered the conditions by which specific signals in primary tumors of head and neck and breast cancers, pre-program cancer cells to become dormant and evade chemotherapy after spreading.

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