Table 1.

Association between stemness/tumor-initiation potential and EMP in different cancer types

Cancer Type	Experiments performed	EMP/stemness association	Reference
Breast	In vivo	Yes	Al-Haji et al., 2003
	In vivo/in vitro	Yes	Mani et al., 2008
	In vitro	Yes	Morel et al., 2008
	In vivo/in vitro	Yes	Morel et al., 2012
	In vitro	No	Ocana et al., 2012
	In vitro	No	Schmidt et al., 2015
	In vivo/in vitro	Yes	Goldman et al., 2015
	In vivo	Yes	Bierie et al., 2017
	In vivo/in vitro	Yes	Kröger et al., 2019
	CTC from patients- In vitro test	Yes	Armstrong et al., 2011
			Cheng et al., 2019
			Papadaki et al., 2019
Ovarian	In vivo	Yes	Strauss et al.,2011
	In vivo/in vitro	Yes	Hojo et al., 2018
Squamous Cell Carcinoma	In vivo	No	Beck et al., 2015
	In vivo	Yes	Pastushenko et al., 2018
	In vivo/in vitro	Yes	Pastushenko et al., 2021
Prostate	In vivo	No	Celia-Terrassa et al., 2012
	In vivo/in vitro	Yes	Ruscetti et al., 2015 Ruscetti et al., 2016
	In vivo/in vitro	Yes	Harner-Foreman et al., 2017
Lung	In vivo/in vitro	Yes	Andriani et al., 2016
Pancreatic	In vivo/in vitro	Yes	Krebs et al., 2017
Colon	CTC from patients- In vitro test	Yes	Cayrefourcq et al., 2015
			Grillet et al., 2017
	In vitro	Yes	Sacchetti et al., 2021