Stem Cells and Cancer

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Majumder, Sadhan (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: New York, NY : Springer New York, 2009.
• Subjects: Medicine.; Cancer research.; Oncology.; Cell biology.; Biomedicine.; Cancer Research.; Cell Biology.

Cancer is a major cause of human morbidity and mortality worldwide. Despite decades of basic and clinical research, the outcome for many cancer patients is still dismal. Although the existence of "stem-like" cells in cancer was hypothesized more than 150 years ago, recent discoveries have...