'lizbeth
05-21-2013, 06:29 PM
I was looking at the website of my friend's new oncologist and found this:
Interestingly, a lot of molecular biologists, such as Max S. Wicha, MD, at the University of Michigan, also now believe that cancer doesn’t develop from mature cells gone “berserk” but from stem cells. Stem cells are used to replace cells that are lost through normal turnover, aging, disease and injury, and their role in cancer development is a hot topic in modern research. We think that these cells are what Beard really identified, because he described the misplaced trophoblasts that he found as being microscopic, primitive, undifferentiated cells that are scattered throughout our tissues, which basically also describes stem cells. So we believe that stem cells were discovered by Dr. Beard in 1902, even though they weren’t officially recognized as such until 1960. In summary, Dr. Beard’s misplaced trophoblasts are what we today call stem cells, and these are the source of cancer.
Interestingly, a lot of molecular biologists, such as Max S. Wicha, MD, at the University of Michigan, also now believe that cancer doesn’t develop from mature cells gone “berserk” but from stem cells. Stem cells are used to replace cells that are lost through normal turnover, aging, disease and injury, and their role in cancer development is a hot topic in modern research. We think that these cells are what Beard really identified, because he described the misplaced trophoblasts that he found as being microscopic, primitive, undifferentiated cells that are scattered throughout our tissues, which basically also describes stem cells. So we believe that stem cells were discovered by Dr. Beard in 1902, even though they weren’t officially recognized as such until 1960. In summary, Dr. Beard’s misplaced trophoblasts are what we today call stem cells, and these are the source of cancer.