Includes bibliographical references and index.

Cancer stem cells : fact or fiction? / Yasunari Kanda -- Cancer stem cells of sarcoma / Tomohiro Fujiwara ... [et al.] -- Role of hematopoietic stem and progenitor cells in the 80 origination of mature B-cell lymphomas / Jose A. Martinez-Climent -- The leukemia stem cell / Uri Rozovski and Zeev Estrov -- CD44 integrates signaling in stem cell microenvironments / Karin Williams, Premkumar Vummidi Giridhar, and Susan Kasper -- The dark site of conventional cancer therapy : triggering the origin of recurrence cancer stem cells / Christa Nagler ... [et al.] -- Current concepts of how to eliminate cancer stem cells / Elena Campos-Sanchez ... [et al.] -- Novel cancer therapies by molecular targeting distinct growth factor pathways and drug resistance-associated molecules in cancer and metastasis-initiating cells / Murielle Mimeault and Surinder K. Batra -- Salinomycin, a candidate drug for the elimination of cancer stem cells / Cord Naujokat and Stefan Laufer -- Targeting breast cancer stem cells / Kelli E. Valdez ... [et al.] -- Targeting leukemic stem cells by breaking their dormancy / Stephan Wurzer and Marieke A.G. Essers.