Fluorescence micrograph of a breast tumor stained to visualize carcinoma cells (phospho-p53, green) surrounded by macrophages (CD11b, red) (a).

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<p>Nuclei appear blue (DAPI). Image courtesy of Michael Graham Espey, PhD, National Cancer Institute, NIH (private communication). (b) Representative pictures of dormant and fast-growing tumors and their vascular structure. Reprinted from Cancer Letters, 294, Almog N, Molecular mechanisms underlying tumor dormancy, 139–146, Copyright (2010), with permission from Elsevier.</p