Breast Cancer Stem Cells & Therapy Resistance

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Breast Cancer Stem Cells & Therapy Resistance

This volume thoroughly examines breast cancer stem cells (BCSCs), from basic definitions to techniques for identifying, isolating, culturing, and targeting BCSCs for therapy; there is additional focus on pre-clinical and clinical results. The text begins with a discussion of breast cancer, focusing especially on the limitations of current therapies in its treatment. The subsequent chapters introduce and compare stem cells and cancer stem cells, describe properties and isolation techniques of BCSCs, and examine BCSC-targeting approaches. The text concludes with a discussion of controversy surrounding the BCSC hypothesis and of future research directions. Breast Cancer Stem Cells & Therapy Resistance, part of the SpringerBriefs in Stem Cells series, provides a succinct yet comprehensive overview of BCSCs for advanced students, graduate students and researchers as well as those working with breast cancer or stem cells in a clinical setting.

 

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Bibliographic Information

Book Title
Breast Cancer Stem Cells & Therapy Resistance
Authors
  • Phuc Van Pham
Series Title
SpringerBriefs in Stem Cells
Copyright
2015
Publisher
Springer International Publishing
Copyright Holder
The author(s)
eBook ISBN
978-3-319-22020-8
DOI
10.1007/978-3-319-22020-8
Softcover ISBN
978-3-319-22019-2
Series ISSN
2192-8118
Edition Number
1
Number of Pages
XI, 110
Number of Illustrations and Tables
18 in colour
Topics