This interesting note picked up by Bio-Edge: There may be cancer stem cells. (This isn’t the same as embryonic stem cells causing tumors.) The theory is that chemotherapy destroys cells that have differentiated into cancer cells, but not the cancer stem cells, which may explain why cancer recurs. Sometimes I think that disease is intelligent…
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