Researchers find stem-cell therapy effective in targeting metastatic cancer: Preclinical findings show tumors are attacked, not normal tissue

Source: Public Library of Science
Date: December 20, 2006

Summary:

Researchers at City of Hope and St. Jude Children's Research Hospital may have found a way to treat cancers that have spread throughout the body more effectively. They used modified neural stem cells to activate and concentrate chemotherapeutic drugs predominately at tumor sites, so that normal tissue surrounding the tumor and throughout the body remain relatively unharmed.