We must be careful to use the term cervical cancer stem cells (CCSC), however, since our spheres are cultured without fetal bovine serum (which contains differentiation stimuli) and we using a commercial medium for enriching stem cells with EGF and bFGF, thus, we suggest that our spheres are enriched for cervical tumorigenic cells and they could named cervical cancer stem cell-like cells, characterized by stemness and cervical stem markers. The gene discussed is FGF2; the disease is cervical cancer.