Opinion: migrating cancer stem cells - an integrated concept of malignant tumour progression.

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Published in Nat Rev Cancer on September 01, 2005

Authors

Thomas Brabletz1, Andreas Jung, Simone Spaderna, Falk Hlubek, Thomas Kirchner

Author Affiliations

1: Department of Pathology, University of Erlangen, Krankenhausstr. 8-10, 91054 Erlangen, Germany. thomas.brabletz@patho.imed.uni-erlangen.de

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