… Several hepatic stem/progenitor markers are useful for isolating a subset of liver cells with
stem cell features, known as cancer stem cells (CSCs). These cells are responsible for tumor …

… between cancer and embryonic development and that led to the hypothesis of the existence
of cancer stem cells (… populations of cells with different levels of malignity and the tumor …

… of mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs) in cancer development is … to cancer development and
promote the malignant potential. … cells, these findings can be used for the development of tumor …

… cell types. This concept has been extended from the embryonic stem cells (ESCs) and adult
stem cells to cancer stem cells (… pluripotent stem cell miRNA signature and cancer stem cell …

… In the tumor microenvironment, Prometheus would be analogous to the “cancer stem cell” …
cancer therapeutics: tumor recurrence due to cancer stem cell (CSC) resistance to therapy. …

… a rare cell population in cancer, which acts like stem cells, is responsible for tumor growth
and metastasis. These rare cells are named cancer stem cells (CSC) after normal stem cells, …

… cancer stem cells in every human cancer type. We present the current scientific evidence
supporting the cancer stem cell … implications of the discovery of human cancer stem cells. …

… be to identify and kill this cancer stem cell population. If solid cancer stem cells can be identified
… efficiently new diagnostic markers and therapeutic targets expressed by the stem cells. …

… , and treatment outcome of cancer. Finally, we present critical pending questions relating
NANOG to cancer stem cells and tumor development. Stem Cells 2015;33:2381–2390 …

… , and the source of cells that give rise to distant metastases. This review will focus on properties
of cancer stem cells; will compare and contrast the cancer stem cell model with the clonal …