A short excerpt from a YouTube video by Joy Kong, MD titled “Stem Cells Cause Cancer!” & Other Myths. The speaker addresses a common concern that adult-derived (autologous) stem cells might promote cancer growth because older stem cells lose the ability to recognize and eliminate cancer cells, potentially sending pro-growth signals instead of death signals.
For people who are using their own cell sources. You just always have to be cognizant that why do people talk about, oh, my God, stem cells may promote cancer growth, and those came from the adult derived stem cells that can promote cancer formation because they've lost certain capabilities of recognizing that certain cells are cancer cells. So I need to give it a different signal to tell it to die instead of telling everything to grow, Whereas your older stem cells apparently have lost a lot of that intelligence.
