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Cancer stem cells: redefining the paradigm of cancer treatment strategies.
Molecular interventions - 1 Jun 2006
Dean Michael
Abstract excerpt
Cancer has been known to arise from long-lived cells in the body and to possess properties in common with undifferentiated, embryonic cells. Recent findings of a population of cells in solid tumors resembling stem cells supports a stem cell model of cancer. A scheme in which all cancers initiate from "activated' stem cells helps bring together data from genetic, cell biology, and epidemiology studies. Cancer can...
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