Cancer Expert from Pittsburgh tells how Chemotherapy can be a problem
February 25, 2010
Dr Max Wicha has discovered that chemotherapy and radiation can actually cause more of a problem in the cancer patient as opposed to less.
This information is not coming from the outside fringes of the medical community, but from the founder of the University of Michigan’s Comprehensive Cancer Center and a pioneer in research on why cancers recur and spread to other parts of the body.
Dr Max Wicha reported, “The reason breast cancer and other malignancies often return aggressively after treatment is that when tumor cells die under assault from chemotherapy and radiation, they give off substances that can reactivate a special set of master cells known as cancer stem cells, Dr. Wicha said in an interview Tuesday.”
There is still controversy in the existence of cancer stem cells, but the idea is gaining traction.
In the last 2 months alone there have been published studies on cancer stem cells in breast, ovarian, prostate and brain cancer around the nation.
Dr Wicha ‘s hope is to eliminate the use of general chemotherapy, with its debilitating side effects and treat cancer with targeted therapies specifically against stem cells.
The above is information reported by Mark Roth of the Pittsburgh-Post Gazette.
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