Tuesday, October 4, 2011

Three Michigan Research Locations To Share A $3.5 Million Komen Breast Cancer Grant

"Researchers believe traditional chemotherapy and radiation treatments often become ineffective because they do not kill the cancer stem cells, and that the key to future treatments is to develop drugs that target and kill these cells. Research suggests that triple-negative breast cancers have a higher proportion of cancer stem cells..."
http://www.vai.org/News/News/2011/09_26_KomenGrant.aspx 
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