Cancer Stem Cell Resistance to Targeted Therapy

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Maccalli, Cristina (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Todaro, Matilde (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Ferrone, Soldano (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Series: Resistance to Targeted Anti-Cancer Therapeutics, 19
• Subjects: Cancer research.; Immunology.; Molecular biology.; Cancer Research.; Molecular Medicine.

This book represents an updated summary of the state of the art of the characterization of cancer stem cell/cancer initiating cell (CSC/CIC) properties. Experts provide an overview of the definition and biological properties of CSCs/CICs as well as the role of these cells in determining the resistan...

Table of Contents:

• Cancer Stem Cells: from birth to death
• A Cancer Stem Cell Perspective on Minimal Residual Disease in Solid Malignancies
• Cancer Stem Cells in Lung Cancer: Roots of Drug Resistance and Targets for Novel Therapeutic Strategies
• Overexpression of YY1 Regulates the Resistance of Cancer Stem Cells: Targeting YY1
• Cancer Stem Cell Challenges in Melanoma Characterization and Treatment
• Harnessing the immune system to target cancer cells
• Targeting leukemia stem cells and the immunological bone marrow microenvironment
• Crosstalk Between Prostate Cancer Stem Cells and Immune Cells: Implications for Tumor Progression and Resistance to Immunotherapy
• Cancer stem cells: the players of immune evasion from immunotherapy
• Index.