PMID- 21386835 OWN - NLM STAT- MEDLINE DCOM- 20110516 LR - 20220410 IS - 1546-170X (Electronic) IS - 1078-8956 (Linking) VI - 17 IP - 3 DP - 2011 Mar TI - The cancer stem cell: premises, promises and challenges. PG - 313-9 LID - 10.1038/nm.2304 [doi] AB - Over the last decade, the notion that tumors are maintained by their own stem cells, the so-called cancer stem cells, has created great excitement in the research community. This review attempts to summarize the underlying concepts of this notion, to distinguish hard facts from beliefs and to define the future challenges of the field. FAU - Clevers, Hans AU - Clevers H AD - Hubrecht Institute, Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences and University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands. h.clevers@hubrecht.eu LA - eng PT - Journal Article PT - Review PL - United States TA - Nat Med JT - Nature medicine JID - 9502015 SB - IM MH - Animals MH - Humans MH - Mice MH - Neoplasms/*pathology MH - Neoplastic Stem Cells/*cytology MH - Xenograft Model Antitumor Assays EDAT- 2011/03/10 06:00 MHDA- 2011/05/17 06:00 CRDT- 2011/03/10 06:00 PHST- 2011/03/10 06:00 [entrez] PHST- 2011/03/10 06:00 [pubmed] PHST- 2011/05/17 06:00 [medline] AID - nm.2304 [pii] AID - 10.1038/nm.2304 [doi] PST - ppublish SO - Nat Med. 2011 Mar;17(3):313-9. doi: 10.1038/nm.2304.