Targeted therapy against cancer stem cells (Review)
- Authors:
- Tao Yang
- Kiera Rycaj
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Affiliations: Research Center for Translational Medicine, Shanghai East Hospital, Tongji University School of Medicine, Shanghai 200120, P.R. China, Department of Molecular Carcinogenesis, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Smithville, TX 78957, USA - Published online on: May 4, 2015 https://doi.org/10.3892/ol.2015.3172
- Pages: 27-33
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