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Clinical-pathologic significance of cancer stem cell marker expression in familial breast cancers.
Breast cancer research and treatment - 1 Jul 2013
Bane Anita, Viloria-Petit Alicia, Pinnaduwage Dushanthi, Mulligan Anna Marie, O'Malley Frances P, Andrulis Irene L
Abstract excerpt
Human breast cancer cells with a CD44(+)/CD24(-/low) or ALDH1+ phenotype have been demonstrated to be enriched for cancer stem cells (CSCs) using in vitro and in vivo techniques. The aim of this study was to determine the association between CD44(+)/CD24(-/low) and ALDH1 expression with clinical-pathologic tumor characteristics, tumor molecular subtype, and survival in a well characterized collection of familial...
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