How Stem Cells Can affect Metastatic Breast Cancer Patient

 I have been accused of "pushing stem cells".   Here's why I think stem cell therapy can improve metastatic breast cancer patients' chances. 

1.  Heart stem cells help low LVEF-heart to regain muscle.   Implication to cancer patients?   If this research pans out, then patients who had already had lifetime doxocirubin or reaction to Herceptin can have more doxuribin/Herceptin if it's needed. 

http://www.mdanderson.org/newsroom/news-releases/2010/adult-stem-cells-help-injured-hearts.html

2,   Liver stem cell to reduce mortality after hepatic resection.  Implication see below

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22156926

3.   Liver stem cells to grow whole organ.  30% of MBC goes to liver.  Of that about 70+% have multiple mets.   Traditionally liver resection is offered to metastatic colorectal cancer patients, but not to breast cancer patients, because the volume of liver to be resected can be bigger and repeat resection may be necessary.   Yet liver mets carries the worst prognosis other than brain mets.    One day, patient's own liver stem cells can be purified and grow into whole liver and be retransplanted.   That will be wonderful:

http://www.wakehealth.edu/News-Releases/2010/Researchers_Engineer_Miniature_Human_Livers_in_the_Lab.htm

Prevention and screening is a deadend that yields decreasing marginal returns and all it does is kicking the can down the road.   Metastatic breast cancer mortality rate improves slower than the overall breast cancer mortality rate, and the treatment is trial and error.   The only way to cure breast cancer is to cure the metastatic breast cancer, 95%-100%.  Including the triple negatives, the liver involved, the brain involved.  

Innovation has always saved our butts, and will save our butts in future.   Stem cell research is gaining momentum across the world.   I am happy to push for it and run commercials for it.    There are lots of things patients can do to accelerate the process, like participating in clinical trials, going to major NCI cancer centers, donating tissue and blood samples, asking questions to make sure the research data will be shared, pushing for better quality clinical trials to be designed, pushing for funding basic/translational research.    My blog makes more elaborate cases for these patients participation.  Please don't be put off by the lousy English.   I am not an english major or a marketer:

http://killerboob.blogpost.com