Cancer Stem Cells : Philosophy and Therapies / Lucie Laplane.
Laplane, Lucie, author.
2016
RC269.7 .L37 2016eb
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Title
Cancer Stem Cells : Philosophy and Therapies / Lucie Laplane.
Author
Laplane, Lucie, author.
ISBN
9780674969582
DOI
https://doi.org/10.4159/9780674969582
Published
Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [2016]
Copyright
©2016
Language
English
Language Note
In English.
Description
1 online resource (222 p.) : 20 halftones, 4 tables
Item Number
10.4159/9780674969582 doi
Call Number
RC269.7 .L37 2016eb
Dewey Decimal Classification
616.99/407
Summary
A new therapeutic strategy could break the stalemate in the war on cancer by targeting not all cancerous cells but the small fraction that lie at the root of cancers. Lucie Laplane offers a comprehensive analysis of cancer stem cell theory, based on an original interdisciplinary approach that combines biology, biomedical history, and philosophy.
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Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
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Harvard University Press Complete eBook-Package 2016
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Frontmatter
Contents
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Introduction
I. Cancer Stem Cells: A New Theory of Cancer
1. Cancer Stem Cells' Triumph
2. The CSC Theory
II. The Historical Emergence of the CSC Concept and Its Driving Role in Cancers
3. Teratocarcinomas and Embryonic Stem Cells
4. Leukemic and Hematopoietic Stem Cells
III. Debates on CSCs and Stem Cells: What Are They?
5. Origin, Stemness, and Stem Cells: The Meaning of Words
6. Stem Cell Identity
7. If Stemness Is a Categorical or a Dispositional Property, How Can We Cure Cancers?
8. If Stemness Is a Relational or a Systemic Property, How Can We Cure Cancers?
Conclusion
Notes
References
Acknowledgments
Index

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