New research from the University of Michigan shows promise in someday being able to help the human body better withstand the rigors of chemotherapy and radiation.
Jian-Guo Geng is an associate professor in the University of Michigan School of Dentistry. He's found that in mice, injecting stem cells into the intestinal tract makes the mice much better able to survive high doses of chemo-radio therapy.
Geng says the discovery may someday make it possible to cure late-stage, metastasized cancers. He says "People will not die of cancer, if our prediction is true."
The study found that 50 to 75 percent of mice treated with a stem cell injection survived what should have been lethal doses of chemotherapy.
Results of the research appear in the journal, Nature.
