Although bronchiolar cells and alveolar cells are proposed to be the precursor cells of adenocarcinoma, this work points to BASCs as the putative cells of origin for this subtype of lung cancer.

• 这些新发现为癌症干细胞假说提供了新的证据，并且这些干细胞将可能成为肺癌初期诊断的一个生物靶标。