The therapeutic implications of plasticity of the cancer stem cell phenotype.

The cancer stem cell hypothesis suggests that tumors contain a small population of cancer cells that have the ability to undergo symmetric self-renewing cell division. In tumors that follow this model, cancer stem cells produce various kinds of specified precursors that divide a limited number of ti...

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Main Authors: Kevin Leder, Eric C Holland, Franziska Michor
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2010-12-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3003707?pdf=render