Source: University Of Michigan Life Sciences Institute
Posted: May 6, 2006
Summary:
Researchers have discovered a way to distinguish cancer stem cells from normal stem cells that they closely resemble, and to kill the cancer stem cells without harming the normal stem cells in the same tissue.
The finding shows that it is possible to identify differences in the mechanisms that maintain normal stem cells and cancer stem cells, and to use the differences to develop therapies that kill cancer stem cells without harming normal stem cells in the same tissue.
Commentary: This finding could provide physicians with new strategies to treat cancer in patients while reducing or eliminating the debilitating side effects of radiation treatment.
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