Cancer Stem Cells : : Philosophy and Therapies /

Cancer Stem Cells : : Philosophy and Therapies / / Lucie Laplane.

A new therapeutic strategy could break the stalemate in the war on cancer by targeting not all cancerous cells but the small fraction that lie at the root of cancers. Lucie Laplane offers a comprehensive analysis of cancer stem cell theory, based on an original interdisciplinary approach that combin...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Harvard University Press Complete eBook-Package 2016
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Laplane, Lucie,
Place / Publishing House:Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2016]
©2016
Year of Publication:2016
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (222 p.) :; 20 halftones, 4 tables
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Abbreviations
  • Introduction
  • I. Cancer Stem Cells: A New Theory of Cancer
  • 1. Cancer Stem Cells’ Triumph
  • 2. The CSC Theory
  • II. The Historical Emergence of the CSC Concept and Its Driving Role in Cancers
  • 3. Teratocarcinomas and Embryonic Stem Cells
  • 4. Leukemic and Hematopoietic Stem Cells
  • III. Debates on CSCs and Stem Cells: What Are They?
  • 5. Origin, Stemness, and Stem Cells: The Meaning of Words
  • 6. Stem Cell Identity
  • 7. If Stemness Is a Categorical or a Dispositional Property, How Can We Cure Cancers?
  • 8. If Stemness Is a Relational or a Systemic Property, How Can We Cure Cancers?
  • Conclusion
  • Notes
  • References
  • Acknowledgments
  • Index

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