Stem Cells – The Boon and Bane of Brain Cancer
Scientists have been trying to find out why certain brain tumors react well to chemotherapy and others don’t, what do they find? Cancer stem cells of course, one of the super-cells of the human body that has already been responsible for some of the world’s most revolutionary treatments for our many diseases. They are capable of extreme re-generation and today with the data compiled by cancer researchers, they might be also responsible for the resistance to the effectivity of chemotherapy for certain forms of cancer. Cancer stem cells as they turn out are similar to regular cancer cells with one hideous twist, hey have the same super division capabilities of cancer cells.
The new results would allow researchers to re-focus their efforts to more effective drug therapies that would make chemotherapy resistant forms susceptible allowing better treatment options in conjunction with the drug therapies they find to be effective. It would also allow more specific cancer diagnosis methods with proper treatment regimens for each and every type of cancer in the brain.