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ABSTRACT:
SUBMITTER: Ayub TH
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4599280 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Jun
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

Oncotarget 20150601 18
Although ovarian cancer is a highly chemosensitive disease, it is only infrequently cured. One of the major reasons lies in the presence of drug-resistant cancer stem-like cells, sufficient to fuel recurrence. We phenotyped cancer stem-like cells by flow cytometry and immunohistochemistry in 55 matched samples before and after taxane/platinum-based neoadjuvant chemotherapy. All used markers of stemness (ALDH1, CD24, CD117, CD133) isolated low frequencies of malignant cells. ALDH1 was the most va ...[more]