How does cell differentiation therapy differ from other cancer treatments?
The model of 20th century cancer care was to find the cancer and kill it, killing healthy cells along with it. Whether through surgical removal, chemotherapy or radiation, this may have harmful side effects and, at times, fails to succeed in killing the cancer cells. Not only has differentiation therapy successfully corrected abnormal cancer cell behavior, it has been demonstrated that response to chemotherapeutic agents can be improved when followed by cell differentiation agents. A combination treatment sometimes dramatically reduces some of the toxicity of chemotherapy alone, greatly improving a patient’s quality of life.
