Progress in colon cancer stem cell research
10.3760/cma.j.issn.1673-4203.2009.05.013
- VernacularTitle:结肠癌干细胞研究进展
- Author:
Zhaojun PAN
;
Herui YAO
- Publication Type:Journal Article
- Keywords:
colon cancer;
cancer stem cell;
drug-resistance;
metastasis
- From:
International Journal of Surgery
2009;36(5):322-325
- CountryChina
- Language:Chinese
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Abstract:
With the proposition of the cancer stem cell theory, researchers have separated and app-raised cancer stem cells from many malignant tumors such as leukemia, breast cancer, brain tumor, lung cancer, prostatic carcinoma and so on. Some scholars discovered that CD133+ may be a specific marker of the colon cancer,which led the fide of the colon cancer stem cell research. This paper presents the latest progress on colon cancer stern cell through its contribution on clinical drug-resistence, metastasis and application.