Stem Cells and Cancer

2. The Cancer Stem Cell Hypothesis
Kimberly E. Foreman, Paola Rizzo, Clodia Osipo, Lucio Miele

3. Tumor Stem Cells and Malignant Cells, One and the Same
Beverly A. Teicher

4. Mesenchymal Stem Cells in Tumor Stroma
Nicholas J. Sullivan, Brett M. Hall

5. Wnt Signaling in Cancer: From Embryogenesis to Stem Cell Self-Renewal
Adam Yagui-Beltrán, Biao He, David M Jablons

6. PTEN in Hematopoietic and Intestinal Stem Cells and Cancer
Jason T. Ross, David H. Scoville, Xi He, Linheng Li

7. Transcription Factors in Cancer Stem Cells of the Hematopoietic Lineage
Steffen Koschmieder, Daniel G Tenen

8. Stem Cell Chromatin Patterns and DNA Hypermethylation
Joyce E. Ohm, Stephen B. Baylin

9. Plasticity Underlying Multipotent Tumor Stem Cells
Lynne-Marie Postovit, Naira V. Margaryan, Elisabeth A. Seftor, Luigi Strizzi, Richard E.B. Seftor, Mary J.C. Hendrix

10. Glioma Stem Cells in the Context of Oncogenesis
Johan Bengzon, Elisabet Englund, Leif G. Salford, Xiaolong Fan

11. Mouse Mammary Tumor Virus: Stem Cells and Mammary Cancer
Gilbert H. Smith

12. Tumor Dormancy, Metastasis, and Cancer Stem Cells
Alysha K. Croker, Jason L. Townson, Alison L. Allan, Ann F. Chambers

13. Cancer Stem Cells: Gastrointestinal Cancers
Hideshi Ishii, Naotsugu Haraguchi, Keisuke Ieta, Koshi Mimori, Masaki Mori

14. Cancer Stem Cells: Hepatocellular Carcinoma
Thomas Shupe, Bryon E. Petersen

15. Cancer Stem Cells: Lung Cancer
Jaclyn Y. Hung

16. Cancer Stem Cells: Pancreatic Cancer
Joseph Dosch, Cheong Jun Lee, Diane M. Simeone

17. Prostate Stem Cells and Cancer in Animals
Alexander Yu. Nikitin, Melia G. Nafus, Zongxiang Zhou, Chun-Peng Liao, Pradip Roy-Burman

18. Prostate Cancer Stem/Progenitor Cells
Sofia Honorio, Hangwen Li, Dean G. Tang

19. Adult Prostate Epithelium Renewal, Stem Cells and Cancer
Chiara Grisanzio, Sabina Signoretti

20. Stem Cells, Angiogenesis, and Neurogenesis in Tumors
Judith A. Varner

21. Implications of Cancer Stem Cells for Cancer Therapy
Liang Cheng, Shaobo Zhang, Darrell D. Davidson, Rodolfo Montironi, Antonio Lopez-Beltran

22. Targeting Leukemic Stem Cells
Angelika M. Burger

23. Targeting Brain Cancer Stem Cells in the Clinic
Gentao Liu, Keith L. Black, John S. Yu

24. Critical Roles of Tumorigenic and Migrating Cancer Stem/Progenitor Cells in Cancer Progression and their Therapeutic Implications
Murielle Mimeault, Surinder K. Batra

25. Therapeutic Index and the Cancer Stem Cell Paradigm
Vera S. Donnenberg, Albert D. Donnenberg

Keywords: Biomedicine, Pharmacology/Toxicology, Cancer Research