Erschienen in:
01.03.2009 | Preface
Tumor-Initiating Cells and Treatment Resistance: How Goes the War?
verfasst von:
Michael T. Lewis, Max S. Wicha
Erschienen in:
Journal of Mammary Gland Biology and Neoplasia
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Ausgabe 1/2009
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Excerpt
In 1971, then President Richard Nixon declared war on cancer. Since then, countless battles against this enemy have been fought by doctors, researchers, as well as by cancer patients and their families [
1]. Nearly four decades later, a contentious question has come to the forefront: do we know the face of the enemy? While great strides have been made in some cases, our failure to eradicate cancer would argue that we do not, and at least in the case of breast cancer, it appears that we have more than one enemy. …