Are we Still Missing the Target in Trying to Prevent and Treat Human Cancers?_Crimson Publishers
Are we Still Missing the Target in Trying to Prevent and Treat Human Cancers? by James E Trosko in Journal of Cancer Research Crimson Publishers_ Novel Approaches in Cancer Study Solving the problem of preventing or treating cancers is still a major problem. While much is known about those multi-disciplinary contributors to the initiation, promotion and progression phases of human cancers, major hurdles to efficacious prevention and treatment involve, while recognizing that there are many known factors that can influence human carcinogenesis, little integration of this knowledge has been used. This brief “Opinion” paper hypothesizes that, by recognizing the multi-stage, multi-mechanism process of carcinogenesis, the roles of organ-specific adult stem cells as the “targets for two types of “cancer stem cells”, and new strategies for nutritional /dietary intervention, could help in the prevention of early susceptibility for cancers later in life, as well as...