NEW YORK — How can a cancer come back after it's apparently been eradicated? Three new studies are bolstering a long-debated idea: that tumors contain their own pool of stem cells that can multiply and keep fueling the cancer, seeding regrowth.
New research questions stem cells in cancerous tumors
Wednesday, August 1, 2012 | 8:43 p.m. CDT
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