Dormancy is an inactive period of an organism's life cycle that permits it to survive through
phases of unfavorable conditions in highly variable environments. Dormancy is not binary …

Species evolve by mutations and epigenetic changes acting on individuals in a population;
tumors evolve by similar mechanisms at a cellular level in a tissue. This article reviews …

Tumor dormancy refers to a critical stage of cancer development when tumor cells are
present, but cancer does not progress. It includes both the concept of cellular dormancy …

Background The ability of a tumor to become dormant in response to suboptimal conditions
has recently been recognized as a key step in tumor progression. Tumor dormancy has …

The hiatus observed in the progression of cancer after diagnosis and treatment in a large
proportion of patients has led to the notion that a state of cancer dormancy must exist during …

In this thematic issue, several mechanisms of tumor dormancy and relapse are discussed.
The reviews suggest mutual interactions and communications between malignant cells and …

Disease relapse in cancer patients many years after clinical remission, often referred to as
cancer dormancy, is well documented but remains an incompletely understood …

The success of targeted therapies and immunotherapies has created optimism that cancers
may be curable. However, not all patients respond, drug resistance is common and many …

Tumor dormancy, a clinically undetectable state of cancer, makes a major contribution to the
development of multidrug resistance (MDR), minimum residual disease (MRD), tumor …

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