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Stem Cells in Head and Neck Cancer

Dr. Prince outlines both the short- and long-term goals for head and neck cancer stem cell research.

What are your goals for research on head and neck cancer stem cells?

At the U-M Comprehensive Cancer Center, our ultimate goal is to understand how cancer stem cells arise and prevent that process from happening. This would be the cure for cancer, but achieving that goal is still a long ways off. At least now we're looking at the right cells - the critical population. If we can kill them, the rest of the cancer cells will die off and the cancer will just fade away or at least not grow.

 

 

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Stem cell research at the University of Michigan
Stem Cells - Explained and Explored

Other stem cell resources
National Institutes of Health Web site on stem cells

International Society for Stem Cell Research

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