The discovery of a treatment capable of blocking the mechanism responsible for the formation of metastasis and the existence of a family of promising compounds, is encouragement for their future assessment in a clinical study that aims to validate a preventive treatment
against tumor metastasis.
Not exact matches
By viewing this fusion as another disease imposed onto
tumor cells, scientists could devise new therapies
against metastasis, the researchers say in the May Nature Reviews Cancer.
«Vaccine directed
against tumor blood vessels suppress
tumor growth,
metastasis.»
«While the failure of these drugs
against brain
metastasis has often been attributed to the blood brain barrier, some agents are small enough to penetrate into the brain,» says Rakesh K. Jain, PhD, director of the Steele Laboratories of
Tumor Biology in the MGH Radiation Oncology Department, co-senior author of the report published in Science Translational Medicine.
The safe use of a stem - cell - based therapy
against brain
metastasis would require preventing the engineered cells from persisting within the brain, where they could affect normal tissue and possibly give rise to new
tumors.