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Surgery and other stimuli may affect angiogenesis and immune regulation, which in combination with other local microenvironment factors (e.g., pre-metastatic niche cells), promote escape from tumor dormancy leading to tumor cell proliferation (green). The relationship of dormant tumor cells to cancer stem cells (CSC) remains to be elucidated.
