CD8A and breast carcinoma: To investigate whether the CD39+PD-1+CD8+ T cell subset indeed controls metastatic outgrowth and therefore mediates metastatic dormancy, we sorted this population from 4T07 breast cancer and adoptively transferred them to naïve BALB/c mice followed by an i.v. injection of 4T07-LZ cells (Fig. 4c and d).