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Why are epididymal tumours so rare?

Epididymal tumour incidence is at most 0.03% of all male cancers. It is an enigma why the human epididymis does not often succumb to cancer, when it expresses markers of stem and cancer cells, and constitutively expresses oncogenes, pro-proliferative and pro-angiogenic factors that allow tumour cell...

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Main Authors: Yeung, Ching-Hei, Wang, Kai, Cooper, Trevor G
Format: Artigo
Language:Inglês
Published: Nature Publishing Group 2012
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Online Access:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3720153/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22522502
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1038/aja.2012.20
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