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    Cancer’s excessive, uncontrolled growth is its most malicious trait. But there is reason to believe that only a tiny and elusive subset of cancer cells truly drive a tumor’s growth: the so-called cancer stem cells. These cells’ unusual resilience and ability to divide in stressful settings may also make them efficient instigators of metastasis, which occurs when cells break off from a primary…

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