Prostate cancer stem cells and their involvement in metastasis
The recently resurrected cancer stem cell (CSC) theory sheds new light on understanding tumor biology. Most solid tumors have now been shown to contain CSCs, i.e., stem cell-like cancer cells. These cells, although generally rare, appear to be highly tumorigenic and may be the cells that drive tumor...
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2010
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Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/2152/ETD-UT-2010-08-1783 |