New Method Takes Aim at Aggressive Cancer Cells

Monday, August 17, 2009 - 15:28 in Health & Medicine

A multi-institutional team has discovered a chemical that works in mice to kill the rare, aggressive cells within breast cancers that can seed new tumors. These cells, known as cancer stem cells, are thought to enable cancers to spread "” and to reemerge after seemingly successful treatment.

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