Work on breast cancer stem cells raises questions about treatment strategies.
Open Access
- 4 June 2003
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in JNCI Journal of the National Cancer Institute
- Vol. 95 (11) , 774-775
- https://doi.org/10.1093/jnci/95.11.774
Abstract
When a tumor shrinks in size as a result of chemotherapy, it is believed that the patient is responding to treatment. However, tumors often initially shrink in response to treatment only to recur later on, suggesting that tumor shrinkage and patient response may not exactly be synonymous. Why is this?Keywords
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