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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2018 Feb 22.
Published in final edited form as: Circ Res. 2017 Feb 17;120(4):624–626. doi: 10.1161/CIRCRESAHA.116.310091

Figure. Similarities between cancer and atherosclerosis.

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Although clearly separate entities, atherogenesis and malignant transformation share a number of overlapping features, including cellular plasticity, clonal expansion, genomic variation, and resistance to efferocytosis (clockwise from lower left).