cancer progression

What Is Clinical Dormancy?

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What Is Clinical Dormancy? Abstract. Clinical cancer dormancy is defined as an unusually long time between removal of the primary tumor and subsequent relapse in a patient who has been clinically disease-free. What does it mean when cancer is dormant? Dormancy is a stage in cancer progression where the cells cease dividing but survive in

What Does It Mean When Cancer Is Dormant?

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What Does It Mean When Cancer Is Dormant? Dormancy is a stage in cancer progression where the cells cease dividing but survive in a quiescent state while waiting for appropriate environmental conditions to begin proliferation again. Quiescence is the state where cells are not dividing but at arrest in the cell cycle in G0-G1. Is