Vandana Venkatesh, Raghu Nataraj, Gopenath S Thangaraj, Murugesan Karthikeyan, Ashok Gnanasekaran, Shanmukhappa B Kaginelli, Gobianand Kuppanna, Chandrashekrappa Gowdru Kallappa, Kanthesh M Basalingappa
Cancer stem cells (CSCs) have been defined as cells within tumor that possess the capacity to self-renew and to cause the heterogeneous lineages of cancer cells that comprise the tumor. CSCs have been increasingly identified in blood cancer, prostate, ovarian, lung, melanoma, pancreatic, colon, brain and many more malignancies. CSCs have slow growth rate and are resistant to chemotherapy and radiotherapy that lead to the failure of traditional current therapy. Eradicating the CSCs and recurrence, is promising aspect for the cure of cancer...
2018: Stem Cell Investigation