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The combination of 5-fluorouracil plus p53 pathway restoration is associated with depletion of p53-deficient or mutant p53-expressing putative colon cancer stem cells.
Cancer biology & therapy - 1 Nov 2009
Huang Catherine, Zhang Xiang M, Tavaluc Raluca T, Hart Lori S, Dicker David T, Wang Wenge, El-Deiry Wafik S
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The cancer stem cell hypothesis suggests that rare populations of tumor-initiating cells may be resistant to therapy, lead to tumor relapse and contribute to poor prognosis for cancer patients. We previously demonstrated the feasibility of p53 pathway restoration in p53-deficient tumor cell popul...
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