Breast cancer as an example of tumour heterogeneity and tumour cell plasticity during malignant progression

Heterogeneity within a tumour increases its ability to adapt to constantly changing constraints, but adversely affects a patient’s prognosis, therapy response and clinical outcome. Intratumoural heterogeneity results from a combination of extrinsic factors from the tumour microenvironment and intrin...

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