Cancer stem cells: acquisition, characteristics, therapeutic implications, targeting strategies and future prospects

AK Yadav, NS Desai - Stem Cell Reviews and Reports, 2019 - Springer
Since last two decades, the major cancer research has focused on understanding the
characteristic properties and mechanism of formation of Cancer stem cells (CSCs), due to …

Cancer stem cells: powerful targets to improve current anticancer therapeutics

RL Bighetti-Trevisan, LO Sousa… - Stem cells …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
A frequent observation in several malignancies is the development of resistance to therapy
that results in frequent tumor relapse and metastasis. Much of the tumor resistance …

Cancer stem cells as key drivers of tumour progression

AZ Ayob, TS Ramasamy - Journal of biomedical science, 2018 - Springer
Abstract Background Cancer stem cells (CSCs) are subpopulations of cancer cells sharing
similar characteristics as normal stem or progenitor cells such as self-renewal ability and …

[HTML][HTML] Cancer stem cells: a major culprit of intra-tumor heterogeneity

F Naz, M Shi, S Sajid, Z Yang, C Yu - American journal of cancer …, 2021 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Cancer is recognized as a preeminent factor of the world's mortality. Although various
modalities have been designed to cure this life-threatening ailment, a significant impediment …

Cancer stem cells: an insight into the development of metastatic tumors and therapy resistance

T Nairuz, Z Mahmud, RK Manik, Y Kabir - Stem Cell Reviews and Reports, 2023 - Springer
The term “cancer stem cells”(CSCs) refers to cancer cells that exhibit traits parallel to normal
stem cells, namely the potential to give rise to every type of cell identified in a tumor …

Cancer stem cells: a potential target for cancer therapy

H Qiu, X Fang, Q Luo, G Ouyang - Cellular and molecular life sciences, 2015 - Springer
Current evidence indicates that a subpopulation of cancer cells, named cancer stem cells
(CSCs) or tumor-initiating cells, are responsible for the initiation, growth, metastasis, therapy …

Cancer stem cells: A brief review of the current status

A Kuşoğlu, ÇB Avcı - Gene, 2019 - Elsevier
Cancer stem cells (CSCs) comprise the subpopulation of tumor bulk and acquire resistant to
conventional therapies and are considered as the primary tumor initiator cells. Nowadays …

Cancer stem cells and targeting strategies

L Barbato, M Bocchetti, A Di Biase, T Regad - Cells, 2019 - mdpi.com
Chemoresistance is a major problem in cancer therapy as cancer cells develop mechanisms
that counteract the effect of chemotherapeutic compounds, leading to relapse and the …

Evolving strategies for therapeutically targeting cancer stem cells

S Talukdar, L Emdad, SK Das, D Sarkar… - Advances in Cancer …, 2016 - Elsevier
Cancer is a multifactor and multistep process that is affected intrinsically by the genetic and
epigenetic makeup of tumor cells and extrinsically by the host microenvironment and …

Cancer stem cell characteristics and their potential as therapeutic targets

JR Lim, J Mouawad, OK Gorton, WA Bubb, AH Kwan - Medical Oncology, 2021 - Springer
Cancer stem cells (CSCs) are a tumour subpopulation whose capacity for self-renewal,
differentiation and proliferation generates unfavourable patient outcomes, including …