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Cancer: Stem cells and brain tumours
Peter B. Dirks1
Abstract
Stem cells are increasingly implicated in maintaining certain cancers. Studies of an intractable type of brain tumour provide hints as to why such cells may underlie the tumours' resistance to therapy.
Cancers are notorious for their ability to survive treatment and recur. Hopes of understanding how they can do so, however, have grown with the prospective identification of rare populations of cancer stem cells in solid tumours1, 2.
- Peter B. Dirks is at the Hospital for Sick Children, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, M5G 1X8 Canada.
Email: peter.dirks@sickkids.ca
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