Previously published research has suggested that the properties of cancer stem cells can explain a variety of unsolved clinical problems. However, new experimental approaches have provided additional perspective and insight regarding the extent to which metastasis, therapy resistance and disease progression reflect the intrinsic properties of cancer stem cells as opposed to genetic evolution or other sources of variation in cancer cell properties.
Sean Morrison, Ph.D., Director of the Children’s Research Institute at UT Southwestern (CRI), and Corbin Meacham, Ph.D., an American Cancer Society Fellow at CRI, have evaluated the implications of new data for the cancer stem-cell model and the degree to which the model accounts for clinically important aspects of disease progression, like therapy resistance and metastatic dissemination.
Read their research review published in Nature.
