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European Calcified Tissue Society Congress 2013

Lisbon, Portugal
18 May 2013 - 22 May 2013

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European Calcified Tissue Society Congress 2013, 18 - 22 May 2013; Lisbon, Portugal

Workshops

Cancer cells and Bone

ba0001w6.1 | Cancer cells and Bone | ECTS2013

How do cancer cells home to and engage in bone?

Croucher Peter

A number of cancers develop in the skeleton or will metastasize to bone, including multiple myeloma and solid tumours such as breast and prostate cancer. Once established in the skeleton, cancer cells have the ability to modify the environment and cause devastating bone disease. The last decade has seen considerable progress in defining the critical cellular and molecular mechanisms responsible and also identified new roles for the cells of bone in the pathogenesis of metastas...

ba0001w6.2 | Cancer cells and Bone | ECTS2013

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ba0001w6.3 | Cancer cells and Bone | ECTS2013

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