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Targeting autophagy in cancer stem cells as an anticancer therapy.
Cancer letters - 1 May 2017
Lei Yuanyuan, Zhang Dan, Yu Jin, Dong Hui, Zhang Jianwei, Yang Shiming
Abstract excerpt
Cancer stem cells (CSCs), which comprise a small proportion of total cancer cells, have special capacities for self-renewal, differentiation and tumor formation. Currently, CSCs are regarded as the major cause of the failure in anticancer therapy, such as chemoresistance and/or radioresistance, tumor recurrence and metastasis. Autophagy, a process of cellular self-digestion and response to stress, has a role in...
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