{"id":4703,"date":"2006-02-21T20:53:53","date_gmt":"2006-02-21T20:53:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=4703"},"modified":"2025-09-25T14:39:10","modified_gmt":"2025-09-25T14:39:10","slug":"nyt_article_ste","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=4703","title":{"rendered":"NYT article &#8220;Stem Cells May Be Key to Cancer&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This from today&#8217;s NY Times.<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2006\/02\/21\/health\/21canc.html?th&amp;emc=th\">Stem Cells May Be Key to Cancer &#8211; New York Times<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Here are the first three paragraphs:<\/p>\n<p>&quot;One day, perhaps in the distant future, <a title=\"http:\/\/topics.nytimes.com\/top\/news\/health\/diseasesconditionsandhealthtopics\/stemcells\/index.html?inline=nyt-classifier\" href=\"http:\/\/topics.nytimes.com\/top\/news\/health\/diseasesconditionsandhealthtopics\/stemcells\/index.html?inline=nyt-classifier\">stem cells<\/a> may help repair diseased tissues. But there is a far more pressing reason to study them: stem cells are the source of at least some, and perhaps all, cancers.<\/p>\n<p>At the heart of every <a title=\"http:\/\/topics.nytimes.com\/top\/news\/health\/diseasesconditionsandhealthtopics\/tumors\/index.html?inline=nyt-classifier\" href=\"http:\/\/topics.nytimes.com\/top\/news\/health\/diseasesconditionsandhealthtopics\/tumors\/index.html?inline=nyt-classifier\">tumor<\/a>, some researchers believe, lie a handful of aberrant stem cells that maintain the malignant tissue.<\/p>\n<p>The idea, if right, could explain why tumors often regenerate even after being almost destroyed by anticancer drugs. It also points to a different strategy for developing anticancer drugs, suggesting they should be selected for lethality to <a title=\"http:\/\/topics.nytimes.com\/top\/news\/health\/diseasesconditionsandhealthtopics\/cancer\/index.html?inline=nyt-classifier\" href=\"http:\/\/topics.nytimes.com\/top\/news\/health\/diseasesconditionsandhealthtopics\/cancer\/index.html?inline=nyt-classifier\">cancer<\/a> stem cells and not, as at present, for their ability to kill just any cells and shrink tumors.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>If you want to read the whole article, remember that the NY Times only makes their stuff available for free online for seven days. If you can&#8217;t read it off their website, email me and I will email you a copy that I have archived.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This from today&#8217;s NY Times.Stem Cells May Be Key to Cancer &#8211; New York Times Here are the first three paragraphs: &quot;One day, perhaps in the distant future, stem cells may help repair diseased tissues. But there is a far more pressing reason to study them: stem cells are the source of at least some, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4703","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-my-lymphoma-and-related-medical-stuff"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4703","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4703"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4703\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9795,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4703\/revisions\/9795"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4703"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4703"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4703"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}