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. 2019 Sep 10;9:855. doi: 10.3389/fonc.2019.00855

Figure 5.

Figure 5

Our hypothesis that the increased lung metastases were caused by the stress of the operative procedure that recruited MDSCs to the primary tumor sites. MDSCs promoted EMT and the release of tumor cells into the circulation, thereby increasing the presence of distant metastasis.