Stem-cell knowledge may help outcomes for colon-cancer patients, says Stanford study – Scope (blog)
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Stem–cell knowledge may help outcomes for colon-cancer patients, says Stanford study
Scope (blog) For this study, Dalerba and Sahoo sought to devise a way to identify colon cancers that were more stem–cell-like, and thus likely to be more aggressive. They looked for a gene that was expressed in more mature cells but not in stem or progenitor cells. Chemotherapy may benefit subgroup of stage-2 colon cancer patients Biomarker predicts which stage II colon cancer patients may benefit from chemotherapy |
