Table Of ContentSPRINGERBRIEFS IN STEM CELLS
Phuc Van Pham
Breast Cancer
Stem Cells
& Therapy
Resistance
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Phuc Van Pham
Breast Cancer Stem Cells
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Phuc Van Pham
Animal Physiology and Biotechnology
Vietnam National University of Science
Ho Chi Minh City , Vietnam
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Pref ace
The past twenty years have seen a signifi cant worldwide reduction in mortality
from breast cancer, largely due to improved early detection methods and develop-
ment of more effective therapies, including adjuvant therapies. However, more than
fi fty percent of breast tumors do not respond to these therapies and more than
seventy percent of patients relapse after fi ve years. These failures are largely due to
breast cancer stem cells (CSCs), found in all malignant breast tumors. Breast CSCs
are considered to be the origins of tumors and contributors to metastasis and relapse
processes in breast cancer patients.
Targeting breast CSCs is therefore a promising therapeutic strategy. Over the
last ten years, many properties of breast CSCs have been discovered and used to
facilitate new targeting strategies, several of which have been tested in clinical
trials and have gone on to become conventional breast cancer treatments.
This book summarizes some specifi c characteristics of breast cancer stem cells,
therapy resistance, and some novel therapies targeting to breast cancer stem cells.
Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam Phuc Van Pham
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Acknowledgments
I am deeply grateful to Dr. Ngoc Kim Phan and Prof. Kiet Dinh Truong for their
generous and humble guidance during the whole of my scientifi c career. Thanks to
my editor Aleta Kalkstein (Springer, USA) for her supportive and kind assistance.
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Contents
1 Introduction to Breast Cancer ................................................................. 1
1.1 Breast Cancer Statistics ...................................................................... 1
1.2 Breast Cancer Treatment .................................................................... 3
References ................................................................................................... 3
2 Stem Cells and Cancer Stem Cells........................................................... 5
2.1 Stem Cells .......................................................................................... 5
2.2 Cancer Stem Cells .............................................................................. 6
2.2.1 History of Cancer Stem Cells ................................................. 6
2.2.2 Origins of CSCs ..................................................................... 8
2.2.3 Markers of CSCs .................................................................... 11
2.2.4 CSCs and Tumor-Initiating Cells ........................................... 13
2.2.5 Properties of CSCs ................................................................. 13
2.3 Breast CSCS ....................................................................................... 14
2.3.1 From the Beginning ................................................................ 14
2.3.2 Origin of Breast CSCs ............................................................ 15
References ................................................................................................... 17
3 Breast Cancer Stem Cell Identification and Isolation ........................... 25
3.1 Breast Cancer Stem Cell Identifi cation .............................................. 25
3.1.1 Specifi c Markers ..................................................................... 25
3.1.2 ALDH ..................................................................................... 28
3.1.3 Side Population ...................................................................... 29
3.2 Breast Cancer Stem Cells: Isolation ................................................... 30
3.2.1 Enrichment of Breast Cancer Stem Cells ............................... 30
3.2.2 Sorting Breast Cancer Stem Cells .......................................... 32
References ................................................................................................... 35
4 Breast Cancer Stem Cell Culture and Proliferation .............................. 41
4.1 Breast Cancer Stem Cells, Spontaneous Differentiation,
and Inter-conversion ........................................................................... 41
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