PRACTICAL ONCOLOGY JOURNAL ›› 2013, Vol. 27 ›› Issue (5): 444-446.doi: 10.3969/j.issn.1002-3070.2013.05.015

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The origins of tumors:local or whole?

ZHANG Baihong1,YUE Hongyun2   

  1. 1.Department of Oncology,General Hospital of People&apos
    s Liberation Army,Lanzhou 730050,China
    2.Department of Ophthalmology,General Hospital of People&apos
    s Liberation Army
  • Received:2013-04-06 Online:2013-10-28 Published:2013-10-15

Abstract: Classical theories of origin for cancer assume that cancer can originate from the local body.Increased evidence shows that cancer can originate from the whole body but not local.We postulate that tumors originate from the origin cells of which tumor stagnate and replicate in suitable microenvironment.Moreover,tumor cells promote the form of tumor microenvironment,and tumor metastasis is only the growth of cancer initiating cells in suitable microenvironment.

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