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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2010 Dec 20.
Published in final edited form as: Breast Cancer (Dove Med Press). 2010;2:1–11.

Fig. 1.

Fig. 1

Origins and properties of breast cancer stem cells (CSCs). Origins of CSCs are unclear but may involve accumulation of genetic damage and dysregulation of normal self-renewal. Defining properties include resistance to chemotherapy, mammosphere formation, and in vivo tumor generation in immunodeficient mice. (Al-Hajj et al., 2003).