Concise reviews: cancer stem cell targeted therapies: toward clinical success

A Desai, Y Yan, SL Gerson - Stem cells translational medicine, 2019 - academic.oup.com
Cancer stem cells (CSCs) are a subpopulation of cells within tumors that possess the stem
cell characteristics of self-renewal, quiescence, differentiation, and the ability to recapitulate …

Targeting cancer stem cells: a strategy for effective eradication of cancer

M Shibata, MO Hoque - Cancers, 2019 - mdpi.com
Cancer stem cells (CSCs) are subpopulations of tumor cells with the ability to self-renew,
differentiate, and initiate and maintain tumor growth, and they are considered to be the main …

MicroRNA-34a: potent tumor suppressor, cancer stem cell inhibitor, and potential anticancer therapeutic

W Li, Y Wang, R Liu, AL Kasinski, H Shen… - Frontiers in cell and …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Overwhelming evidence indicates that virtually all treatment-naive tumors contain a
subpopulation of cancer cells that possess some stem cell traits and properties and are …

Triple negative breast cancer: a mountain yet to be scaled despite the triumphs

Q Wu, S Siddharth, D Sharma - Cancers, 2021 - mdpi.com
Simple Summary Triple-negative breast cancer (TNBC) is a highly aggressive subtype of
breast cancer that cannot be treated with endocrine therapy and Her2-targeted therapy …

Low-dose IFNγ induces tumor cell stemness in tumor microenvironment of non–small cell lung cancer

M Song, Y Ping, K Zhang, L Yang, F Li, C Zhang… - Cancer research, 2019 - AACR
IFNγ is conventionally recognized as an inflammatory cytokine that plays a central role in
antitumor immunity. Although it has been used clinically to treat a variety of malignancies …

Lung cancer-associated brain metastasis: Molecular mechanisms and therapeutic options

M Yousefi, T Bahrami, A Salmaninejad, R Nosrati… - Cellular Oncology, 2017 - Springer
Background Lung cancer is the most common cause of cancer-related mortality in humans.
There are several reasons for this high rate of mortality, including metastasis to several …

[HTML][HTML] Lung cancer stem cells—origin, characteristics and therapy

D Prabavathy, Y Swarnalatha… - Stem cell …, 2018 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Cancer stem cells (CSCs) have gained an increasing attention recently in cancer research.
CSCs have ability to generate new tumor through their stem cell properties, essentially self …

C-myc contributes to malignancy of lung cancer: a potential anticancer drug target

P Chanvorachote, N Sriratanasak… - Anticancer …, 2020 - ar.iiarjournals.org
Emerging evidence has provided important information on oncoproteins involved in cancer
initiation, progression, metastasis, and resistance to current therapies. C-myc, one of the …

Lung cancer stem cells and cancer stem cell-targeting natural compounds

A Maiuthed, W Chantarawong… - Anticancer …, 2018 - ar.iiarjournals.org
The novel information regarding molecular and translational research have created a
paradigm shift in the understanding of lung cancer biology, revealing the more precise target …

Paclitaxel-based chemotherapy targeting cancer stem cells from mono-to combination therapy

HM Nawara, SM Afify, G Hassan, MH Zahra, A Seno… - Biomedicines, 2021 - mdpi.com
Paclitaxel (PTX) is a chemotherapeutical agent commonly used to treat several kinds of
cancer. PTX is known as a microtubule-targeting agent with a primary molecular mechanism …