Cancer stem cells and their unique role in metastatic spread

Teresa Bernadette Steinbichler1, Dragana Savic2, József Dudás1

  • 1Department of Otorhinolaryngology, Medical University of Innsbruck, Innsbruck, Austria.

Seminars in Cancer Biology
|September 16, 2019
PubMed

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