The role of stem cells in tumorgenesis / 中国病理生理杂志

ABSTRACT

Stem cells are a lineage with capacities of self-renewal and multipotential differentiation. They are exactly regulated by microenvironment where they live. With the understanding of stem cells biology, researchers noticed that stem cells have many similar biology characters with tumor cells, and thought that tumors were likely derived from stem cells, and gave a concept that there were tumor stem cells in tumor tissues.