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Can stem cells be used to cure breast cancer?
Yes, I think so.
How are stem cells and cancer cells different?
it is just different
Do stem cells grow faster than cancer cells?
no
How is luekemia treated?
Leukemia is a very serious condition. It is a cancer of the blood cells. Treatment includes watchful waiting, chemotherapy, stem cell transplant, and radiation therapy.
Do stem cells cure a cancerous growth?
No. But if you kill or remove the cancer, the tissues/organs that were removed can be replaced or regenerated with stem cells.
Does stem cell research cover cancer?
In any cancer tumor, there are what's called 'cancer stem cells'. These cancer stem cells behave like stem cells in that they are usually quiescent but when the tumor is destroyed by for example radiation therapy and chemotherapy, which targets dividing cells, the tumor stem cells can survive these treatments and begin to divide and recreate the tumor after the treatment has ceased. Right now there are no effective treatment except for surgery that can selectively target cancer stem cells and this is the cause of high recurrence rates in certain cancers. There are also studies that show that directly injecting neural stem cells into brains with neural tumors can directly reduce the size of the tumor without harming surrounding cells. This makes stem cells sound like the 'silver bullet' for neural tumors however much more research needs to be done before this effect can be understood enough for human usage or usage for other organs.
Are all bone marrow stem cells producing abnormal cells when someone has leukemia or just some of them?
Only some bone marrow stem cells produce abnormal cells when a person has leukemia. These abnormal cells are known as cancer stem cells.
What organs have been treated using blood from the umbilical cord?
umbilical cord cell are stem cells that can be used to make other organs the cells are hematopic stem cells
A disease resulting from abnormal proliferation of stem cells in bone marrow?
This cancer type is called myeloma.
Why do cancer cells go through the cell cycle rapidly?
Cancer cells lack the gene that stops cell growth at a certain point which causes them to grow and grow and not stop. Therefore, in cell growth, a cancer cell has nothing to tell it to stop growing.
Main difference between stem cell and cancer cell?
stem cells having oct-4 factor which is responsible for differentiation whereas in cancer cells , cells continously proliferating they never differentiate, nd they also lack oct-4 protein
A certain stem cell produces only muscles cells. What kind of stem cell is this?
Unipotent
