Study provides documentation that tumor 'stem-like cells' exist in benign tumors
Thursday, July 23, 2009 - 08:35
in Health & Medicine
LOS ANGELES (July 22, 2009) -- Cancer stem-like cells have been implicated in the genesis of a variety of malignant cancers. Research scientists at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center's Maxine Dunitz Neurosurgical Institute have isolated stem-like cells in benign (pituitary) tumors and used these "mother" cells to generate new tumors in laboratory mice.