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Editorial
. 2023 Jan 30:13:1126924.
doi: 10.3389/fonc.2023.1126924. eCollection 2023.

Editorial: Revisiting seed and soil: A new approach to target hibernating dormant tumor cells

Angélica Santiago-Gómez  1   2 , Dalit Barkan  3 , Ann F Chambers  4
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Editorial: Revisiting seed and soil: A new approach to target hibernating dormant tumor cells

Angélica Santiago-Gómez et al. Front Oncol. .
No abstract available

Keywords: cancer recurrence; circulating tumour cells; dormancy; metastasis; minimal residual disease; tumour microenvironment.

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DB is a consultant for VujaDe Sciences. The remaining authors declare that the research was conducted in the absence of any commercial or financial relationships that could be construed as a potential conflict of interest.

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Revisiting the Seed and Soil hypothesis. All the articles included in the Research Topic are summarised in this schematic representation. CTCs, Circulating Tumour Cells; EVs, Extracellular Vesicles; DTCs, Disseminated Tumour Cells; EMT, Epithelial-to-Mesenchymal Transition; TME, Tumour Microenvironment; ECM, Extracellular Matrix; MRD, Minimal Residual Disease.
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