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Eradication of Leukemia Stem Cells as a New Goal of Therapy in Leukemia
15 Jan 2006
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Leukemias have traditionally been classified and treated on the basis of phenotypic characteristics, such as morphology and cell-surface markers, and, more recently, cytogenetic aberrations. These classification systems are flawed because they do not take into account cellular function. The leukemia cell population is functionally heterogeneous: it consists of leukemia stem cells (LSC) and mature leukemia cells...
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