Stem Cells may actually fuel brain cancer
Related News: Spinal / Nervous / BrainA study by both Canadian and American researchers suggest that long living normal stem cells within the brain may mutate to cancer inducing cells.
The study seems to lead researchers to the premise that if isolation of these mutated cells is possible, additional therapies for specific types of brain cancer may be developed. Stem cells have already been ...
linked to the development of leukaemia and breast cancer, so additional related findings within the brain are not necessarily a suprise.
"This gives hope that the isolation of cancer stem cells, coupled with our knowledge of the mutations causing cancer, will result in ways to eliminate cancer cells while sparing normal tissues."
Michael Clarke, University of Michigan Medical School
Posted on November 24, 2004 04:42 PM