homing phenomenon

cancer pathology

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metastasis

  • Lung cancers may metastasize to the adrenal glands or other organs and tissues, such as the brain or bones.
    In metastasis: Preferential spread

    This homing phenomenon may be related to tumour cell recognition of specific “exit sites” from the circulation or to awareness of a particularly favourable—or forbidding—“soil” of another tissue. This may occur because of an affinity that exists between receptor proteins on the surface of cancer cells…

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