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ReviewCurrent stem cell research & therapy2024

Cancer Stem Cells and Treatment of Cancer: An Update and Future Perspectives.

Mudassir Khan, Mashal Naeem, Sana Aftab Chaudary, Affan Ahmed, Aftab Ahmed

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Review in Current stem cell research & therapy, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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3 · Its place in the literature

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1 citing paper in PubMed.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors.

Mudassir KhanDepartment of Healthcare Biotechnology, Atta Ur Rahman School of Applied Biosciences (ASAB), National University of Sciences and Technology, Islamabad, Pakistan.ORCID 0000-0002-8184-3557
Mashal NaeemDepartment of Biosciences, COMSATS University, Islamabad, Pakistan.
Sana Aftab ChaudaryDepartment of Biosciences, COMSATS University, Islamabad, Pakistan.
Affan AhmedDepartment of Plant Biotechnology, Atta Ur Rahman School of Applied Biosciences (ASAB), National University of Sciences and Technology, Islamabad, Pakistan.
Aftab AhmedSchool of Biological Sciences, Punjab University, Lahore, Pakistan.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Cancer stem cells (CSCs) play an essential role in tumour progression and metastasis. Stem cell ability of self-renewal enables it to persist over time, thereby contributing to cancer relapse or recurrence and also resistance to current therapies. Therefore, targeting CSCs emerged as a promising strategy of cancer treatment. CSCs exhibit differentiation, self-renewal, and plasticity, they contribute to formation of malignant tumours, also favors, metastasis, heterogeneity, multidrug resistance, and radiation resistance. Coventional cancer treatments predominantly target cancer cells that are not CSCs, CSCs frequently survive, eventually leading to relapse. This article focuses on the development of novel therapeutic strategies that combine conventional treatments and CSC inhibitors to eradicate cancer cells and CSCs, for the better and permanent treatment. However, the diversity of CSCs is a significant obstacle in the development of CSC-targeted therapies, necessitating extensive research for a better understanding and exploration of therapeutic approaches. Future development of CSC-targeted therapies will rely heavily on overcoming this obstacle.

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NeoplasmsNeoplastic Stem CellsAnimalsAntineoplastic AgentsDrug Resistance, NeoplasmHumansAntineoplastic Agentscancer remissionCancer stem cellscancer treatmentconventional treatmentstherapy resistance.tumour recurrence

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