期刊
BRITISH JOURNAL OF CANCER
卷 116, 期 8, 页码 973-989出版社
SPRINGERNATURE
DOI: 10.1038/bjc.2017.54
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gastric cancer stem cells; self-renewal; hierarchical model; stochastic model; clonal evolution; regulatory mechanism; targeted therapy
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资金
- National Natural Science Foundation of China [81272698, 81672319, 81602507]
Gastric cancer (GC) is a life-threatening disease worldwide. Despite remarkable advances in treatments for GC, it is still fatal to many patients due to cancer progression, recurrence and metastasis. Regarding the development of novel therapeutic techniques, many studies have focused on the biological mechanisms that initiate tumours and cause treatment resistance. Tumours have traditionally been considered to result from somatic mutations, either via clonal evolution or through a stochastic model. However, emerging evidence has characterised tumours using a hierarchical organisational structure, with cancer stem cells (CSCs) at the apex. Both stochastic and hierarchical models are reasonable systems that have been hypothesised to describe tumour heterogeneity. Although each model alone inadequately explains tumour diversity, the two models can be integrated to provide a more comprehensive explanation. In this review, we discuss existing evidence supporting a unified model of gastric CSCs, including the regulatory mechanisms of this unified model in addition to the current status of stemness-related targeted therapy in GC patients.
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