Cancer Stem Cells: Basic Concepts and Therapeutic Implications

Annual Review of Pathology: Mechanisms of Disease

Volumn 11, Issue , 2016, Pages 47-76

  Nassar, Dany ^a   Blanpain, Cédric ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ LIBRE DE BRUXELLES   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Cancer; Cancer stem cells; Epithelial to mesenchymal transition; Resistance to therapy; Tumor heterogeneity; Tumor microenvironment

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CANCER RECURRENCE; CANCER STEM CELL; CELL RENEWAL; CELL SUBPOPULATION; CLONAL EVOLUTION; EPITHELIAL MESENCHYMAL TRANSITION; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC HETEROGENEITY; HUMAN; NONHUMAN; PRIMARY TUMOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOLID TUMOR; TUMOR MICROENVIRONMENT; ANIMAL; DRUG EFFECTS; NEOPLASMS; PATHOLOGY;

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT;

ANIMALS; ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENTS; HUMANS; NEOPLASMS; NEOPLASTIC STEM CELLS; TUMOR MICROENVIRONMENT;

EID: 84971254606     PISSN: 15534006     EISSN: 15534014     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev-pathol-012615-044438     Document Type: Article

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