Cancer stem cells are the small number of cancer cells that are able to replicate to promote tumor growth.
The failure of current cancer treatments, as believed by cancer researchers, is due to the fact that they don’t target or kill such stem cells.
Researchers from the University of Michigan Comprehensive Cancer Center are the first to identify cancer stem cells in pancreatic tumors.
According to lead study author Diane Simeone, M.D., director of the Gastrointestinal Oncology Program at the U-M Comprehensive Cancer Center:
“Over the last one to two decades we have not had a significant improvement in the long-term survival rates with …read more