Proof that Cancer Stem Cells Exist?

May 19, 2014

(Medical News Today) – There has been much controversy over the compelling idea of cancer stem cells – a small subset of “master cells” that drives the growth and development of a patient’s cancer. Now an international team of scientists that tracked the gene mutations driving cancer in patients with a rare blood condition that frequently develops into acute myeloid leukemia, says it has proved conclusively that cancer stem cells exist.