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ReviewWorld journal of stem cells2018

Spatiotemporal switching signals for cancer stem cell activation in pediatric origins of adulthood cancer: Towards a watch-and-wait lifetime strategy for cancer treatment.

Shengwen Calvin Li, Mustafa H Kabeer

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Review in World journal of stem cells, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 14 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

14 citing papers in PubMed.

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  4. Conditionally Activated ("Caged") Oligonucleotides.Molecules (Basel, Switzerland) · 2021
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  9. Functional endoscopy techniques for tracking stem cell fate.Quantitative imaging in medicine and surgery · 2019
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors.

Shengwen Calvin LiNeuro-oncology and Stem Cell Research Laboratory, Children's Hospital of Orange County, Department of Neurology, University of California-Irvine School of Medicine, Orange, CA 92868-3874, United States.
Mustafa H KabeerChildren's Hospital of Orange County, Department of Surgery, University of California-Irvine School of Medicine, Orange, CA 92868-3874, United States.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Pediatric origin of cancer stem cell hypothesis holds great promise and potential in adult cancer treatment, however; the road to innovation is full of obstacles as there are plenty of questions left unanswered. First, the key question is to characterize the nature of such stem cells (concept). Second, the quantitative imaging of pediatric stem cells should be implemented (technology). Conceptually, pediatric stem cell origins of adult cancer are based on the notion that plasticity in early life developmental programming evolves local environments to cancer. Technologically, such imaging in children is lacking as all imaging is designed for adult patients. We postulate that the need for quantitative imaging to measure space-time changes of plasticity in early life developmental programming in children may trigger research and development of the imaging technology. Such quantitative imaging of pediatric origin of adulthood cancer will help develop a spatiotemporal monitoring system to determine cancer initiation and progression. Clinical validation of such speculative hypothesis-that cancer originates in a pediatric environment-will help implement a wait-and-watch strategy for cancer treatment.

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Imaging of single cellsPediatric origins of adult cancer

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PMID29531638
PMCPMC5840533

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