Hit 'em where they live: targeting the cancer stem cell niche.

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Published in Cancer Cell on January 01, 2007

Authors

Zeng-Jie Yang1, Robert J Wechsler-Reya

Author Affiliations

1: Department of Pharmacology and Cancer Biology, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC 27710, USA.

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