Higgins MJ, Wolff AC (2008) Therapeutic options in the management of metastatic breast cancer. Oncology 22:614–623
Al-Hajj M, Wicha MS, Benito-Hernandez A, Morrison SJ, Clarke MF (2003) Prospective identification of tumorigenic breast cancer cells. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 100:3983–3988
Dean M, Fojo T, Bates S (2005) Tumour stem cells and drug resistance. Nat Rev Cancer 5:275–284
Morrison BJ, Schmidt CW, Lakhani SR et al (2008) Breast cancer stem cells: implications for therapy of breast cancer. Breast Cancer Res 10:210
Hortobagyi GN, Spanos W, Montague ED et al (1983) Treatment of locoregionally advanced breast cancer with surgery, radiotherapy, and combination chemoimmunotherapy. Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys 9:643–650
Kantoff PW, Higano CS, Shore ND et al (2010) Sipuleucel-T immunotherapy for castration-resistant prostate cancer. N Engl J Med 365:411–422
Liu PY, Chen LB, Huang X (2009) The antitumor effects of CIK cells combined with docetaxel against drug-resistant lung adenocarcinoma cell line SPC-A1/DTX in vitro and in vivo. Cancer Biother Radiopharm 24:91–98
Citron ML, Berry DA, Cirrincione C et al (2003) Randomized trial of dose-dense versus conventionally scheduled and sequential versus concurrent combination chemotherapy as postoperative adjuvant treatment of node-positive primary breast cancer: first report of Intergroup Trial C9741/Cancer and Leukemia Group B Trial 9741. J Clin Oncol 21:1431–1439
Lu ZH, Jia J, Di LJ et al (2011) DNA methyltransferase inhibitor CDA-2 synergizes with high-dose thiotepa and paclitaxel in killing breast cancer stem cells. Front Biosci 1:240–249
Yu J, Di LJ, Song GH et al (2011) Randomized clinical case-control trial for the comparison of docetaxel plus thiotepa versus docetaxel plus capecitabine in patients with metastatic breast cancer. Beijing Da XueXue Bao 43(1):151–156
Berry DA, Ueno NT, Johnson MM et al (2011) High-dose chemotherapy with autologous stem-cell support as adjuvant therapy in breast cancer: overview of 15 randomized trials. J Clin Oncol 29(24):3214–3223
Berry DA, Ueno NT, Johnson MM et al (2011) High-dose chemotherapy with autologous hematopoietic stem-cell transplantation in metastatic breast cancer: overview of six randomized trials. J Clin Oncol 29(24):3224–3231
Lake RA, Robinson BW (2005) Immunotherapy and chemotherapy—a practical partnership. Nat Rev Cancer 5:397–405
Crump M, Gluck S, Tu D et al (2008) Randomized trial of high-dose chemotherapy with autologous peripheral-blood stem-cell support compared with standard-dose chemotherapy in women with metastatic breast cancer: NCIC MA.16. J Clin Oncol 26:37–43
Biron P, Durand M, Roché H et al (2008) Pegase 03: a prospective randomized phase III trial of FEC with or without high-dose thiotepa, cyclophosphamide and autologous stem cell transplantation in first-line treatment of metastatic breast cancer. Bone Marrow Transplant 41:555–562
Demirer T, Ilhan O, Mandel NM et al (2000) A phase I dose escalation study of high-dose thiotepa, melphalan and carboplatin (TMCb) followed by autologous peripheral blood stem cell transplantation (PBSCT) in patients with solid tumors and hematologic malignancies. Bone Marrow Transplant 25:697–703
Kroger N, Frick M, Gluz O et al (2006) Randomized trial of single compared with tandem high-dose chemotherapy followed by autologous stem-cell transplantation in patients with chemotherapy-sensitive metastatic breast cancer. J Clin Oncol 24:3919–3926
Lotz JP, Curé H, Janvier M et al (2005) High-dose chemotherapy with haematopoietic stem cell transplantation for metastatic breast cancer patients: final results of the French multicentric randomised CMA/PEGASE 04 protocol. Eur J Cancer 41:71–80
Nitz UA, Mohrmann S, Fischer J et al (2005) Comparison of rapidly cycled tandem high-dose chemotherapy plus peripheral-blood stem-cell support versus dose-dense conventional chemotherapy for adjuvant treatment of high-risk breast cancer: results of a multicentre phase III trial. Lancet 366:1935–1944
Yu J, Ren J, Di LJ et al (2011) Mobilization of peripheral blood stem cells using regimen combining docetaxel with granulocyte colony-stimulating factor. Chin J Cancer Res 23:49–53