Nadia Fathy Hassabou Afifi

Precancerous and cancerous stem cells in oral epithelial dysplasia and oral squamous cell carcinoma : An immunoflourescent study / الخلايا الجذعية المحتمل أن تصبح سرطانية و الخلايا الجذعية السرطانية فى عسر التنشوء الظهارى و سرطان الخلايا الحرشفية بالفم : دراسة مناعية إشعاعية Nadia Fathy Hassabou Afifi ; Supervised Heba Ahmed Farag , Rehab Fawzi Kasem - Cairo : Nadia Fathy Hassabou Afifi , 2011 - 104 Leaves : facsimiles , photographs ; 30cm

Thesis (M.Sc.) - Cairo University - Faculty of Oral and Dental Medicine - Department of Oral Pathology

An important conceptional advance in cancer heterogeneity is the discovery that cancer stem cell models play a crucial role in initiation, growth, recurrence and metastasis of solid tumors including SCC of the head and neck region. This study therefore was carried out with the aim of evaluation of the CD44 stem cell marker expression in oral premalignant lesions and SCC



Cancer stem cells CD44 Stem cell