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The microenvironment promotes metastasis
Host immune cells, together with various cytokines and growth factors secreted by tumor cells, immune cells, and stromal cells, support the dissemination and colonization of tumor cells in the pre-metastatic niche. Note: this figure is modified from Quail and Joyce.15
