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Hans Clevers1, Ankur Sharma2, Sendurai A Mani3,4

  • 1Pharma, Research and Early Development (pRED) of F. Hoffmann-La Roche Ltd, Basel, Switzerland.

Cancer Heterogeneity and Plasticity
|November 12, 2025
PubMed

Keywords:
cancer cell plasticitycancer stem cellscellular plasticityimmune evasionphenotypic switchingtherapy resistancetumor microenvironment

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