HANNOVER , GERMANY Breast cancer is among the most life threatening of malignancies, affecting about one in ten women in the Western world.

Cancer stem cells (CSCs) are cancer cells (found within tumors or hematological cancers) that possess characteristics associated with normal stem cells, specifically the ability to give rise to all cell types found in a particular cancer sample.

And bone marrow is actually what we use to save the lives of tens of thousands of patients, most of whom have advanced malignancies like leukemia and lymphoma and some other diseases.

Increased breast cancer risk is also known to be associated with several inherited syndromes, such as Li Fraumeni syndrome, a condition that is further associated with childhood onset of multiple malignancies including soft tissue sarcomas, leukemias, and brain tumors.

Seminoma As an adjuvant treatment, use of chemotherapy as an alternative to radiation therapy in the treatment of seminoma is increasing, because radiation therapy appears to have more significant long term side effects (for example, internal scarring, increased risks of secondary malignancies, etc.).