New Delhi (PTI): Anti cancer treatments may have an opposite effect on the cancareous cells increasing the small population of cancer stem cells believed to drive the disease, according to a latest research. The research was undertaken by Vasyl Vasko, alongwith scientists from the CRTRC Institute for Drug Development in San Antonio and Johns Hopkins University after questions were raised on efficacy of some therapies used in treating cancer. "Our experiments suggest that some treatments could be producing more cancer stem cells that then are capable of metastasizing, because these cells are trying to find a way to survive the therapy," said Vasko. Vasko and his team measured both stem cells markers and tumor volume...
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