Will a mAb-Based Immunotherapy Directed against Cancer Stem Cells Be Feasible?

The cancer stem cell (CSC) hypothesis suggests that within a tumor, there is a small subpopulation of cells with stem cell properties responsible for tumor maintenance and metastasis generation. This hypothesis also implies that new antitumor drugs, rather than targeting the bulk of the tumor mass,...

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Main Authors: Silvia Santamaria, Marisa Delgado, Leonor Kremer, Jose A. Garcia-Sanz
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2017-11-01
Series:Frontiers in Immunology
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Online Access:http://journal.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fimmu.2017.01509/full