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Metastatic evolution. Genetic and epigenetic mechanisms may cause the generation of a self-renewing metastatic cancer stem cell subclone (mCSC, yellow), phenotypically different from the CSC that is driving tumorigenesis (pink). Through a series of invasive processes, mCSC enters blood vessels and colonizes distant organs according to the seed and soil hypothesis. Blue cells represent bulk tumor cells [47].
