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Cancer stem cells

Here, there, everywhere?

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Can every tumour cell propagate human cancers or is this property exclusive to an elite subset? Findings are divided. The latest set shows that — depending on circumstances — both perspectives can be correct.

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Figure 1: Oncogenesis is a sequential process.

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  1. Connie J. Eaves is in the Terry Fox Laboratory, British Columbia Cancer Agency, 675 West 10th Avenue, Vancouver, British Columbia V5Z 1L3, Canada. ceaves@bccrc.ca ,

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See also Abstractions, page xiii , and News, page 553 .

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Eaves, C. Here, there, everywhere?. Nature 456, 581–582 (2008). https://doi.org/10.1038/456581a

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