Colorectal cancer stem cells are enriched in xenogeneic tumors following chemotherapy.

Patients generally die of cancer after the failure of current therapies to eliminate residual disease. A subpopulation of tumor cells, termed cancer stem cells (CSC), appears uniquely able to fuel the growth of phenotypically and histologically diverse tumors. It has been proposed, therefore, that f...

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Main Authors: Scott J Dylla, Lucia Beviglia, In-Kyung Park, Cecile Chartier, Janak Raval, Lucy Ngan, Kellie Pickell, Jorge Aguilar, Sasha Lazetic, Stephanie Smith-Berdan, Michael F Clarke, Tim Hoey, John Lewicki, Austin L Gurney
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2008-06-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC2413402?pdf=render