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NATURE
Volume 501, Issue 7467, Pages 328-337Publisher
NATURE PUBLISHING GROUP
DOI: 10.1038/nature12624
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- Howard Hughes Medical Institute
- Cancer Prevention and Research Institute of Texas
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Phenotypic and functional heterogeneity arise among cancer cells within the same tumour as a consequence of genetic change, environmental differences and reversible changes in cell properties. Some cancers also contain a hierarchy in which tumorigenic cancer stem cells differentiate into non-tumorigenic progeny. However, it remains unclear what fraction of cancers follow the stem-cell model and what clinical behaviours the model explains. Studies using lineage tracing and deep sequencing could have implications for the cancer stem-cell model and may help to determine the extent to which it accounts for therapy resistance and disease progression.
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