Breast tumor heterogeneity: cancer stem cells or clonal evolution?

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Published in Cell Cycle on August 17, 2007

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Lauren L Campbell1, Kornelia Polyak

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1: Department of Medical Oncology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, USA.

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