triple negative breast care Tag

25 Feb

Posted at 21:29h in Author Interviews, Breast Cancer, Radiation Therapy
MedicalResearch.com Interview with: [caption id="attachment_53297" align="alignleft" width="133"]Jennifer Sims-Mourtada, Ph.D. Senior Rsearch Scientist Director of Translational Breast Cancer Research Center for Translational Cancer Research ChristianaCare Dr. Sims-Mourtada[/caption] Jennifer Sims-Mourtada, Ph.D. Senior Rsearch Scientist Director of Translational Breast Cancer Research Center for Translational Cancer Research ChristianaCare MedicalResearch.com: What is the background for this study? Response: Cancer stem cells are resistant cancer cells that are able to continuously grow and are very resistant to radiation and chemotherapy. Cancer stem cells can also escape to the blood stream and travel to another site causing metastasis.