| Literature DB >> 23850493 |
Xiaoxiang Chen1, Jing Zhang, Zhihong Zhang, Hongxia Li, Wenjun Cheng, Jinsong Liu.
Abstract
Although epithelial ovarian cancer cells are eliminated by debulking surgery and chemotherapy during initial treatment, it is believed that only a subset of cancer cells, that is, cancer stem cells, may be an important source of tumor recurrence and drug resistance. This review highlights our current understanding of high-grade serous carcinoma, ovarian cancer stem cells, common methods for enrichment of ovarian cancer stem cells, mechanisms involved in drug resistance, and potential strategies for overcoming drug resistance, with associated potential controversies and pitfalls. We also review the potential relationship between epithelial-to-mesenchymal transition and cancer stem cells and how we can induce cancer cells to differentiate into benign stromal fibroblasts in response to certain chemotherapy drugs.Entities:
Keywords: Cancer stem cell; Epithelial-mesenchymal transition; High-grade ovarian serous cancer
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Year: 2013 PMID: 23850493 PMCID: PMC3797876 DOI: 10.1016/j.humpath.2013.05.001
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Hum Pathol ISSN: 0046-8177 Impact factor: 3.466