The malignant pleural effusion as a model to investigate intratumoral heterogeneity in lung cancer.
Malignant Pleural Effusions (MPE) may be useful as a model to study hierarchical progression of cancer and/or intratumoral heterogeneity. To strengthen the rationale for developing the MPE-model for these purposes, we set out to find evidence for the presence of cancer stem cells (CSC) in MPE and de...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Public Library of Science (PLoS)
2009-06-01
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Series: | PLoS ONE |
Online Access: | http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC2697051?pdf=render |