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The Cellular Origin and Evolution of Breast Cancer.
Cold Spring Harbor perspectives in medicine - 1 Mar 2017
Zhang Mei, Lee Adrian V, Rosen Jeffrey M
Abstract excerpt
In this review, we will discuss how the cell of origin may modulate breast cancer intratumoral heterogeneity (ITH) as well as the role of ITH in the evolution of cancer. The clonal evolution and the cancer stem cell (CSC) models, as well as a model that integrates clonal evolution with a CSC hierarchy, have all been proposed to explain the development of ITH. The extent of ITH correlates with clinical outcome and...
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