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Stem cells and cancer: an intimate relationship
12 Jun 2006
Abstract excerpt
Tumour-wide 'omics' approaches have long held sway as the approach to identifying useful therapeutic targets. This view is changing with the realization that many, if not all, cancers contain a minority population of self-renewing stem cells, the cancer stem cells, which are entirely responsible for sustaining the tumour as well as giving rise to proliferating but progressively differentiating cells that are...
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