In another experiment, treating human
brain cancer cells containing FGFR3 - TACC3 with mitochondrial inhibitors interrupted the production of energy inside cancer cells and significantly slowed tumor growth.
Another is that the transplanted bits of tumor act nothing like
cancers in actual human
brains, Fine and colleagues reported in 2006: Real - life glioblastomas grow and spread and resist treatment because they
contain what are called tumor stem
cells, but tumor stem
cells don't grow well in the lab, so they don't get transplanted into those mouse
brains.