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Is it possible for a stem cell itself to be cancerous? or must a stem cell first convert to some regular type of cell first then become cancerous?
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Cancer stem cells: The rapidly dividing cells that drive cancers are actually stem cells, sharing their features with benign stem cells. This is true at least of many cancers, and it a relatively new understanding. Wikipedia is pretty good on it http://en.Wikipedia.Org/wiki/cancer_stem_cell.
Answered 3/23/2014
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