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a A senescent fibroblast (blue nucleus) in the stroma secretes various factors that stimulate pre-neoplastic epithelial cells (yellow cells) to proliferate. b Further, the SASP stimulates transformed cells to undergo an EMT (orange cells). c Finally, the SASP promotes the invasion of mesenchymal-like cells (red cells) through the surrounding stroma
