BookAlison L. Allan, editor.
Contents:
Cancer stem cells : historical perspectives and lessons from leukemia / Christopher R. Cogle
Cancer stem cells in breast cancer / Jenny E. Chu and Alison L. Allan
Cancer stem cells in brain cancer / Xin Wang, Chitra Venugopal, and Sheila K. Singh
Cancer stem cells in colorectal cancer / Mauro Biffoni, Eros Fabrizi, and Lucia Ricci-Vitiani
Cancer stem cells in pancreatic cancer / Jorge Dorado, Alicia G. Serrano, and Christopher Heeschen
Cancer stem cells in prostate cancer / Paula Kroon ... [et al.]
Cancer stem cells in melanoma / Ping Jin ... [et al.]
Cancer stem cells in lung cancer / Jun Shen and Feng Jiang
Cancer stem cells in ovarian cancer / Fang Fang ... [et al.]
Cancer stem cells in hepatocellular cancer / Russell C. Langan and Itzhak Avital
Cancer stem cells in head and neck cancer / Mark E.P. Prince and Samantha J. Davis
Relationship between regulatory pathways in pluripotent stem cells and human tumors / Olga Gaidarenko and Yang Xu
Influence of the embryonic microenvironment on tumor progression / Daniela Quail ... [et al.]
The epithelial-to-mesenchymal transition and cancer stem cells / Jonas Fuxe
Application of stem cell assays for the characterization of cancer stem cells / Pamela M. Willan and Gillian Farnie
Zebrafish as a model to study stem cells in development, disease, and cancer / Viviana Anelli, Cristina Santoriello, and Marina C. Mione
Imaging cancer stem cells / Paula Foster
Mouse models for studying normal and cancer stem cells / David A. Hess
Cancer stem cells and disease prognosis / Zeshaan A. Rasheed, Jeanne Kowalski, and William H. Matsui
Mechanisms of radioresistance in cancer stem cells / Cleo Y-F Lee and Maximilian Diehn
The role of ABC transporters in cancer stem cell drug resistance / Vera S. Donnenberg, Ludovic Zimmerlin, and Albert D. Donnenberg
Resistance to endocrine therapy in breast cancer : are breast cancer stem cells implicated? / Ciara S. O'Brien ... [et al.]
Future directions : cancer stem cells as therapeutic targets / Alysha K. Croker and Alison L. Allan
Final thoughts : complexity and controversy surrounding the "cancer stem cell" paradigm / Craig Gedye, Richard P. Hill, and Laurie Ailles.