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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2015 Jan 1.
Published in final edited form as: Adv Biol Regul. 2013 Sep 19;0:197–206. doi: 10.1016/j.jbior.2013.08.006

Fig. 1.

Fig. 1

The process of metastasis. Post-EMT invasive cells leave the primary tumor and enter the circulatory system via trans-endothelial intravasation where the primary tumor cells migrates to a capillary or the lympatic system and then exits the circulation using transendothelial extravasation. At this point, the migrated epithelial cells colonize new tissue and become micrometastases that eventually develop into full blown tumors.