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How Targeting Metabolism Can Defeat Cancer Stem Cells

Researchers at the University of Michigan Rogel Cancer Center are unraveling a crucial thread that explains why cancer so often becomes resistant to treatment.

In a 2003 breakthrough finding, Max S. Wicha, M.D., and colleagues discovered that a small number of cells within a tumor — the cancer stem cells — were responsible for fueling the growth and spread of cancer. Kill the stem cells, and you could master the cancer.

But cancer is like a game of whack-a-mole. Strike it down in one place, and it pops back up in another.

Now, researchers have found that cancer stem cells exist in more than one state and are very plastic, meaning they can change form, sliding…

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 How Targeting Metabolism Can Defeat Cancer Stem Cells

New research explains why stem cells become resistant to cancer treatment and opens a clever new way to go after them.

Cancer Stem Cell News

Since its launch in December 2012, Cancer Stem Cell News has become a highly valued resource and provides readers with a unique compilation of cancer stem cell research findings across multiple tissue and cancer types.

Be The Match

For people with life-threatening blood cancers like leukemia and lymphoma or other diseases, a cure exists. Be The Match® connects patients with their donor match for a life-saving marrow or umbilical cord blood transplant.

National Cancer Institute

Stem cell transplants are most often used to help people with leukemia and lymphoma. They may also be used for neuroblastoma and multiple myeloma. Stem cell transplants for other types of cancer are being studied in clinical trials, which are research studies involving people.

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