CD44 and cancer: Studies of neoplastic tissues have provided evidence of stem-like cells within tumors [53,54,59,60], of breast (CD44+CD24−/low) [61,62], pancreatic (CD44+CD24+ESA+) [63], brain (CD133+) [60], head and neck (CD44+) [64], and colon (CD133+ and CD44+ESAhigh) [59] cancer.