Re: Its the cancer stem cell

[Guest guest]

In a message dated 12/16/05 4:16:30 PM Eastern Standard Time,

privet012002@... writes:

> These are research findings

Do you have this information possibly?

[Guest guest]

These are research findings. Treatment has been to kill the cancer cells, not

the stem cells. Like a weed, you cannot kill the leaves only, but must kill

the roots which are the stem cells. They found the stem cells in leukemia. At

Toronto they found the stem cells of some brain cancers. Recently, they found

stem cells in prostate cancer.

The stem cells regenerate the cancer cells. So, treatments to kill the

cancer stem cells should prove more effective because you are getting at the

ROOT of cancer, something that has not been done before. A few trials are

starting. In breast cancer, they found that only the breast stem cells could

grow back the cancer. Regular ca cells did not grow. They isolated the stem

cells which are few in number and hard to find.

At U Mich, they are startng a trial to target these stem cells. Cancer

treatment has always been about the cancer cell, but this is not the real

problem. Now we are finding out that there are cancer stem cells which

regenerate the cancer cells. This is basic biology that was not known before

about cancer.

Treatments to kill the cancer stem cells is new because no one could find

these cells before, and many did not think these cells existed. Now all this

research is going in that direction. This is a major shift.

Basics here, stem cells regenerate cells in our bodies. But some are cancer

stem cells that regenerate cancer cells. If you can eliminate these bad stem

cells.....

GloWeeza@... wrote:

Up to date research has been going on for 5-6 decades. Nothing!! Now its

stem cells. For how long? Till the next scheme comes to their minds. Nothing

will come out of the universities to cure cancer. Look for isolated pockets of

clinical genius. The big names concentrate on cell lines. They do not study the

human cancer tumor. They will get grants but does one actually think a

cancer cure will evolve from them?