24^th World Radiation Oncology Summit

Track 8: Cancer Stem Cells

Cancer stem cells( CSCs) are cancer cells that retain characteristics associated with normal stem cells, specifically the capability to give rise to all cell types set up in a particular cancer sample. CSCs are thus tumorigenic ( excrescence- forming), maybe in discrepancy to other non-tumorigenic cancer cells. CSCs may induce excrescences through the stem cell processes of tone- renewal and isolation into multiple cell types. similar cells are hypothecated to persist in excrescences as a distinct population and beget relapse and metastasis by giving rise to new excrescences.