Sentences with phrase «last cancer cell in the body»
This new view implies that rooting out every last cancer cell in the body might not be necessary.
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Researchers have for the first time developed a technique that coats anticancer drugs in membranes made from a patient's own platelets, allowing the drugs to last longer in the body and attack both primary cancer tumors and the circulating tumor cells that can cause a cancer to metastasize.
A story in last Friday's New York Times highlights research on «cancer stem cells»: a fraction of cells in a tumor that are especially resistant to chemotherapy and resemble the body's non-cancerous stem cells in their ability to renew themselves.