Cancer stem cells: a new approach to tumor development
Many theories have been proposed to explain the origins of cancer. Currently, evidences show that not every tumor cell is capable of initiating a tumor. Only a small part of the cancer cells, called cancer stem cells (CSCs), can generate a tumor identical to the original one, when removed from human...
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| Language: | English |
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Associação Médica Brasileira
2015-02-01
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| Series: | Revista da Associação Médica Brasileira |
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| Online Access: | http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0104-42302015000100021&lng=en&tlng=en |