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This finding lends support to the controversial belief that therapy should focus on rooting out these cancer stem cells—single cells that can give rise to a tumor and cause remission following treatment...
Melanoma is an aggressive skin cancer that currently has no effective therapies for the late stages of its development, said Markus H. Frank ’89, an assistant professor of pediatrics and the senior author of the study...
According to the National Cancer Institute, almost 60,000 new cases were diagnosed in the United States in 2007, and there were over 8,000 deaths last year as a result of the cancer...
...comparison, all 28 mice who were not given the antibodies developed new tumors as the cancer cells spread to other parts of their bodies...
...significance of our study lies in understanding that, if we can identify the relatively few cells that cause melanoma virulence and target them for destruction, we would have hope for an effective treatment for this and other forms of cancer,” said co-author George F. Murphy, a professor of pathology at Harvard Medical School...