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An attractive force in metastasis

Nature volume 410, pages 24–25 (2001)Cite this article

In breast-cancer patients, secondary tumours often form in the lungs and bone marrow, for example, but rarely in the kidneys. The explanation for this bias involves soluble attractant molecules called chemokines.

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Figure 1: Targeted metastasis of primary breast cancer cells, according to the results of Müller et al.2.

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