Cancer debate: Are tumors fueled by stem cells?

NEW YORK (AP) — 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.

If that’s true, scientists will need to find a way to kill those cells, apart from how they attack the rest of the tumor.

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