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? 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
What Is A Dormant Tumor? Cancer can recur in the same place as the original tumor or in other places in the body if the tumor cells spread. Cancerous cells can lie dormant for years. But what triggers these cells to reawaken hasn’t been well understood. Past studies have linked chronic stress with cancer progression.