Cancer stem cells and tumor metastasis: first steps into uncharted territory.

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Publication Year:

2007

Authors:

Piero Dalerba, Michael F Clarke

PubMed ID:

18371356

Funding Grants:

Stanford CIRM Training Program

Scientific Abstract:

In several forms of human cancer, only a phenotypic subset of cancer cells, usually termed "cancer stem cells" (CSC), can initiate tumor growth when transplanted. In this issue of Cell Stem Cell, Hermann et al. (2007) analyze the relationship between CSC and tumor metastasis.