Stem Cell Therapy | Anti Cancer Properties Research | Explained by Dr. Joy Kong, MD

Foreign. You have all these other evidence showing that MSCs have anti cancer properties, including being cytotoxic on tumor cells, inducing apoptosis and suppressing the proliferation of glioma cells. And it can secrete what's called trail ligand. So this is a tumor necrosis factor. And these are related to pro apoptotic effects on tumor cells. So these are triggering programmed cell death. So these MSCs can directly trigger cell death and also it can inhibit tumor vascularization. I just told you that it can promote tumor angiogenesis, which is vascularization. So now we have a direct opposite report. We also have seen umbilical cord MSCs, mesenchymal stem cells, showing inhibition of tumor growth by direct cell to cell contact. So that's pretty cool because it can directly inhibit the tumor growth by touching the cells, talking to the cells.