‘Sleeping’ cancer cells
Intensive research has resulted in Dr Sheheryar Kabraji developing "a novel method for finding ‘sleeping’ cancer cells in human tumors using automated microscopy,” noted a write-up forwarded in September by his 91-year-old grandfather Nadershaw Kabraji of Pakistan. Sheheryar’s studies show "how dormant cancer cells are responsible for resistance to chemotherapy in patients with breast cancer” and have the potential "to identify which patients will respond to existing treatment as well as help develop novel treatments in breast cancer.”
Currently on a Sovereign/Santander Hematology/Oncology Fellowship at the Dana Farber Cancer Institute at the Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) Cancer Center in......