Breast Cancer Stem Cells more resistant to radiation
Many of us didn’t know this, be sort of assume that a stem cell only shows exists in “animals.” We also believe that the only two kinds of stem cells are adult stem cells and embryonic stem cells because of the debate over the Pros and Cons of Stem Cells. But you would be surprised to know that there is a whole list of different kinds of stem cells. One of these kinds of stem cells are cancer stem cells.
The article that I read discusses notes that under 2 sweeps of a standard radiation regiment only 20% of normal breast cancer cells are still living. On the other hand, twice that number of stem cells live. Some scientists believe that these are the most important types of cells to destroy, because of their ability to become other types of cells.
Scientists suppose that because of the stem cells ability to alter it’s DNA, that the cells aren’t in as much danger of their DNA changing. Unfortunately there hasn’t been too much research on this. But this is an exciting find that should hopefully spur more of it.
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