Mutant Stem Cells May Seed Cancer

5 September 2003

journal article
other
Published by American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in Science

Vol. 301 (5638) , 1308-1310
https://doi.org/10.1126/science.301.5638.1308

Abstract

Some cancers are sustained by a small minority of cells; their resemblance to normal stem cells might explain why many cancers are so hard to eradicate, and it has researchers rethinking cancer treatments.

Keywords

TREATMENTS
MINORITY
HARD
RETHINKING
RESEMBLANCE
SEED CANCER
CANCER SOME CANCERS
CELLS MAY SEED
MUTANT