The cancer stem cell: premises, promises and challenges
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- 7 March 2011
- journal article
- review article
- Published by Springer Science and Business Media LLC in Nature Medicine
- Vol. 17 (3), 313-319
- https://doi.org/10.1038/nm.2304
Abstract
Over the last decade, the notion that tumors are maintained by their own stem cells, the so-called cancer stem cells, has created great excitement in the research community. This review attempts to summarize the underlying concepts of this notion, to distinguish hard facts from beliefs and to define the future challenges of the field.Keywords
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