New Stem Cell Therapy Stops Spread of Breast Cancer by Hannah Joy on March 8, 2021 at 6:33 PM
A biology-driven, Stem-Cell therapy fights against solid tumors; especially stops brain cancer that metastasizes to the brain, reveals a new study.
Approximately 15-to-30 percent of patients with metastatic breast cancer have brain metastasis (BM), with basal-like breast cancer (BLBC) metastasizing to the brain most frequently.
The prognosis for BLBC-BM patients is poor, as the blood-brain barrier prevents most therapeutics from reaching the brain.
‘Engineered off the shelf stem cells target breast cancer that metastasizes to the brain.’
Testing candidate therapies in clinical trials is also challenging because animal models that mimic BM are limited.