Abstract: Malignant tumors threaten women’s health. Metastasis and recurrence are the difficulties for cancer treatment. The theory of cancer stem cell proposes that the tumor tissue has its own cancer stem cells in it and regards cancer stem cell as the key to regeneration, metastasis and recurrence. The proposal of cancer stem cell concept provides the probability of radical curing cancers through the targeted killing of cancer stem cells. This article reviewed the progress of cancer stem cells in gynecology oncology.

Key words: Uterine cervical cancer, Endometrial cancer, Ovarian cancer, Cancer stem cells