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Association between hypoxia and lymph node metastasis. Hypoxia induces an increase in CCR7 expression on cancer cells. If such a cell enters lymph vessels, it will be retained in the lymph node because of a high concentration of ligands of this receptor (CCL19/ELC and CCL21/SLC) in the lymph node. This results in a lymph node metastasis.
