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. 2011 Jan 7;11:1. doi: 10.1186/1475-2867-11-1

Figure 2.

Figure 2

Hypothesis Schema. Treatments that damage a cancerous epithelial tumor are predicted to trigger a wound healing response that will lead to EMT induction and cancer stem cell activation and proliferation as an adaptive response to tissue injury. This response, in turn, is predicted to render surviving cancer cells resistant to conventional therapies and more capable of metastatic spread.