Table 1.

Identified cancer stem cells and phenotypes

Tissue and/or Cancer	Phenotype and/or Surface Expression	Other Relevant Marker Expression	Identifying Reference
Leukemia (acute myelogenous leukemia)	CD34⁺/CD38⁻/CD90⁻		Lapidot et al. (16); Bonnet et al. (18)
Breast	CD44⁺/CD24^−/low/Lin⁻	Lin⁻, ESA⁺,CD133⁺	Al-Hajj et al. (19); Wright et al. (20)
Squamous cell cancer of head and neck	CD44⁺/Lin⁻	BMI1⁺ (nuclear)	Prince et al. (21)
Melanoma	ABCB5⁺		Schatton et al. (22)
Colon	CD133⁺		Haraguchi et al. (23); O'Brien et al. (24)
Liver hepatocellular cancer	CD133⁺	ALDH⁺	Ma et al. (25)
Prostate	CD44⁺/α2β1^hi/CD133⁺		Collins et al. (26)
Glioblastoma	CD133⁺		Singh et al. (27)
Pancreas	CD44⁺/CD24⁺/ESA⁺	CD133⁺	Li et al. (1); Hermann et al. (2)
Ovarian	BCRP1⁺; CD44⁺/CD133⁺	Verapamil_sensitive, CD44⁺, CD117⁺ (c-kit)	Szotek et al. (28); Zhang et al. (75)