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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2017 Nov 1.
Published in final edited form as: Wiley Interdiscip Rev Nanomed Nanobiotechnol. 2016 Apr 1;8(6):891–908. doi: 10.1002/wnan.1406

Figure 1.

Figure 1

Components of a tumor stroma. A complex network of neoplastic and non-neoplastic cells constitute tumor stroma. A strong symbiotic relationship exists among them which help the tumor growth and survival. Just like an organ, tumor has its own support cells, blood vessels, residing immune cells and even stem cells that helps its survival and propagation.