Sentences with phrase «for aggressive brain tumors»
An experimental drug in early development for aggressive brain tumors can cross the blood - brain tumor barrier, kill tumor cells and block the growth of tumor blood vessels, according to a study led by researchers at the Ohio State University Comprehensive Cancer Center — Arthur G. James Cancer Hospital and Richard J. Solove Research Institute (OSUCCC — James).
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Therefore, researchers are aggressively looking to find new molecular targets for this aggressive brain tumor.
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Several studies have supported a role for cancer stem cells in the aggressive brain tumors called glioblastoma, but those studies involved inducing human tumors to grow in mice, and as such their relevance to cancer in humans has been questioned.
Glioblastoma is the most aggressive type of tumor that originates in the brain and with no curative treatments currently available, the average survival time for patients ranges from 15 to 18 months.
Findings published in Oncotarget offer new hope for children with highly aggressive brain tumors like atypical teratoid / rhabdoid tumor (AT / RT) and medulloblastoma.