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David T. Scadden, a co-director of the Harvard Stem Cell Institute who was not involved in the study, said that the results are an important step forward in cancer therapy...
...think that this is the first evidence of being able to specifically target a cancer stem cell,” Scadden said. “The study shows that targeting them might actually matter...
...Human cells are considered foreign for the mouse, so you can get an immune response just because of this,” said Kornelia Polyak, a Medical School professor and researcher at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute...
Polyak also said that more work needs to be done before cancer therapy can focus solely on targeting cancer stem cells...
...Most people—including myself—believe that to eliminate the tumor, one has to kill both the stem-like and the more differentiated cancer cells, but we may need to use approaches that are specific for each,” Polyak said...