Residual breast cancers after conventional therapy display mesenchymal as well as tumor-initiating features.

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Published in Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A on August 03, 2009

Authors

Chad J Creighton1, Xiaoxian Li, Melissa Landis, J Michael Dixon, Veronique M Neumeister, Ashley Sjolund, David L Rimm, Helen Wong, Angel Rodriguez, Jason I Herschkowitz, Cheng Fan, Xiaomei Zhang, Xiaping He, Anne Pavlick, M Carolina Gutierrez, Lorna Renshaw, Alexey A Larionov, Dana Faratian, Susan G Hilsenbeck, Charles M Perou, Michael T Lewis, Jeffrey M Rosen, Jenny C Chang

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1: Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Division of Biostatistics, Dan L. Duncan Cancer Center, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX 77030, USA.

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