CANCER STEM CELL PROGNOSTICATION SYSTEMS (CPS)

摘要

The disclosure herein provides compositions and methods for characterizing, recognizing or identifying a cancer stem cell or a leukemia stem cell. Also disclosed herein are compositions and methods for testing whether a drug, compound, diet, therapy or treatment is effective or efficacious for preventing, ameliorating, slowing the progress of, stopping or slowing the metastasis of, or for causing a full or partial remission of, a cancer, or a cancer stem cell, or a leukemia cancer stem cell. In addition, the disclosure provides "cancer stem cell prognostication systems" (CPSs), or multiplexed systems, or kits comprising e.g., a microarray or biochip or equivalent, or a collection, set or panel of oligonucleotides or primer pairs, or polymerase chain reaction (PCR) primer pairs, or equivalent, capable of identifying or characterizing part, substantially all or the whole (entire, complete) transcriptome expression pattern of a cancer stem cell.