Sunday, December 16, 2007

Guerilla Stem Cells

Via Balloon Juice, a new development in cancer treatment:
GlaxoSmithKline Plc’s drug Tykerb, in an unexpected finding, cut the number of breast cancer stem cells by half in 30 patients, and two-thirds were cancer free after follow-up treatment with other therapies.

The finding, reported today at the San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium in Texas, supports the newest theory in cancer, that a tiny number of stem cells lurking within tumors are the driving force that fuels their growth. Researchers from Baylor College of Medicine in Houston said the finding may be a first step toward changing the way cancer is treated.

Stem cells! I always knew they were really a force for evil. And those liberal apostates wanted us to cultivate them.

Liberals: Objectively pro-breast cancer.

PS: Did anyone read that Boondocks series where President Bush declares a "war on stem cells"?

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