Breast cancer stem cells as drivers of tumor chemoresistance, dormancy and relapse: new challenges and therapeutic opportunities

ML De Angelis, F Francescangeli, A Zeuner - Cancers, 2019 - mdpi.com
Breast cancer is the most frequent cancer among women worldwide. Therapeutic strategies
to prevent or treat metastatic disease are still inadequate although great progress has been …

Breast cancer stem cells

TW Owens, MJ Naylor - Frontiers in physiology, 2013 - frontiersin.org
Cancer metastasis, resistance to therapies and disease recurrence are significant hurdles to
successful treatment of breast cancer. Identifying mechanisms by which cancer spreads …

[HTML][HTML] Breast cancer stem cells—from origins to targeted therapy

WC Sin, CL Lim - Stem cell investigation, 2017 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Breast cancer is marked as one of the leading causes of malignancy-related morbidities
worldwide. In spite of aggressive interventions, the inevitability of relapse and metastasis …

Breast cancer stem cells: Multiple capacities in tumor metastasis

SQ Geng, AT Alexandrou, JJ Li - Cancer letters, 2014 - Elsevier
Breast cancer is the leading cause of cancer death among women worldwide. Accumulating
evidence indicates that the local recurrent and/or distant metastatic tumors, the major causes …

The role of cancer stem cells in breast cancer initiation and progression: potential cancer stem cell-directed therapies

P Economopoulou, VG Kaklamani… - The oncologist, 2012 - academic.oup.com
Recent studies have identified a small population of highly tumorigenic cells with stem cell
properties in human breast and other solid tumors that are considered to be the source of …

Cancer stem cell in breast cancer therapeutic resistance

X Bai, J Ni, J Beretov, P Graham, Y Li - Cancer treatment reviews, 2018 - Elsevier
Abstract Development of therapeutic resistance and metastasis is a major challenge with
current breast cancer (BC) therapy. Mounting evidence suggests that a subpopulation of …

Breast cancer stem cells, heterogeneity, targeting therapies and therapeutic implications

X Zeng, C Liu, J Yao, H Wan, G Wan, Y Li… - Pharmacological …, 2021 - Elsevier
Both hereditary and sporadic breast cancer are suggested to develop from a stem cell
subcomponent retaining most key stem cell properties but with dysregulation of self-renewal …

[HTML][HTML] Breast cancer stem cells and the challenges of eradication: a review of novel therapies

F Saeg, M Anbalagan - Stem cell investigation, 2018 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Breast cancer is a heterogeneous disease that accounts for 30% of all cancers diagnosed in
women and over half a million deaths per year. Cancer stem cells (CSCs) make up a small …

Breast cancer stem cells: biomarkers, identification and isolation methods, regulating mechanisms, cellular origin, and beyond

X Zhang, K Powell, L Li - Cancers, 2020 - mdpi.com
Simple Summary Breast cancer stem cells are blamed to be responsible for breast cancer
tumorigenesis, metastasis, drug resistance and tumor recurrence. Therefore, it is critical to …

Breast cancer stem cells: current advances and clinical implications

M Luo, SG Clouthier, Y Deol, S Liu, S Nagrath… - Mammary Stem Cells …, 2015 - Springer
There is substantial evidence that many cancers, including breast cancer, are driven by a
population of cells that display stem cell properties. These cells, termed cancer stem cells …