Not exact matches
From tissue and cell samples from five
glioblastoma patients, the scientists obtained 33 individual cancer cells capable of reproduction, which grew into very
different tumors in the lab.
The activation of this signaling pathway progressively increased in
different types of gliomas, with the highest activity seen in
patients with
glioblastoma, a particularly difficult - to - treat form of brain cancer that represents approximately 15 percent of all brain tumors.
The NYGC and its founding member institutions are conducting additional studies involving Watson to help accelerate the discovery of potentially actionable sequence variants in various types of cancer, including an ongoing study that involves DNA and RNA from a larger cohort of
glioblastoma patients, and a study of 200
patients with
different types of cancer.
It may help classify
patients with very high accuracy into the
different existing
glioblastoma subtypes, which differ in survival and treatment response.