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Cell-of-Origin of Cancer versus Cancer Stem Cells: Assays and Interpretations.
Cancer research - 1 Oct 2015
Rycaj Kiera, Tang Dean G
Abstract excerpt
A tumor originates from a normal cell that has undergone tumorigenic transformation as a result of genetic mutations. This transformed cell is the cell-of-origin for the tumor. In contrast, an established clinical tumor is sustained by subpopulations of self-renewing cancer cells operationally called cancer stem cells (CSC) that can generate, intraclonally, both tumorigenic and nontumorigenic cells. Identifying...
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