The lung microenvironment: an important regulator of tumour growth and metastasis

Nasser K. Altorki; Geoffrey J. Markowitz; Dingcheng Gao; Jeffrey L. Port; Ashish Saxena; Brendon M. Stiles; Timothy E. McGraw; Vivek Mittal

doi:10.1038/s41568-018-0081-9

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AngiogenesisMetastasisLung cancerTumor microenvironmentMedicineCancer researchTargeted therapyImmune systemLungRegulatorCancerImmunologyBiologyOncologyInternal medicine

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Year: 2018
Type: review
Volume: 19
Issue: 1
Pages: 9-31
Citations: 1128
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                                    Nasser K. Altorki, 
                                
                                    Geoffrey J. Markowitz, 
                                
                                    Dingcheng Gao
                                
                                et al.
                            
                            (2018). 
                            The lung microenvironment: an important regulator of tumour growth and metastasis. 
                            Nature reviews. Cancer
                            , 19
                            (1)
                            , 9-31.
                            https://doi.org/10.1038/s41568-018-0081-9
                        

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DOI: 10.1038/s41568-018-0081-9