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Experimental test looks at cancer stem cell development in mammals
Posted Aug 14th 2007 4:33PM by Brian White
Filed under: Breast Cancer, Research
Actually and intentionally creating cancer cells sounds like an odd proposition to me, but that's what is being done by Harvard medical scientists. Why? Well, they are trying to initiate tumors --
breast cancer stem cells to be exact -- in mice to determine how to detect cancer stem cells early and effectively.
With cancer stem cells being very rare, knowing about them very early and with precision would be quite a boon to the breast cancer testing field. Outside of petri dish experiments, researching cancerous stem cells inside mammals has been a very unexplored area of oncology -- until now.
Tags: breast cancel cells, breast cancer, BreastCancelCells, BreastCancer, cancer cells, CancerCells
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