LDHA and breast cancer: DSF was found to enhance the cytotoxic effect of cisplatin by inhibiting the stemness of CSCs derived from breast cancer cell lines through the inhibition of expression of stemness-related transcription factors such as Sox, Nanog, and Oct and also by inhibiting the activity of ALDH in ALDH + stem-like cells (Liu et al., 2013; Yang et al., 2019).