PTEN and cancer: This is remarkable, as several lines of experimental evidence gathered in healthy and transformed cell matter, clearly underscore an interdependence between PI3K/AKT signaling on the one hand and SOX2-imposed (cancer) stem cell characteristics on the other: Mutations in PTEN for example support the outgrowth of healthy and malignant mammary epithelium derived stem cells, which can be antagonized by the PI3K/AKT cross-reactive inhibitor perifosine [90].