Researchers studying the brain tumor type
glioma often use a cell line called U87MG that was established at Uppsala University almost fifty years ago.
Not exact matches
The study looked for two of the most common types of brain tumors —
gliomas, which are
often malignant, and meningiomas, which are more
often benign — in people ages 20 to 79 in Denmark, Finland, Norway and Sweden between 1974 and 2003.
The St. Jude Children's Research Hospital - Washington University Pediatric Cancer Genome Project has identified new mutations in pediatric brain tumors known as high - grade
gliomas (HGGs), which most
often occur in the youngest patients.
Without surgery, patients are left with chemotherapy (only one drug is currently approved for malignant
glioma) and radiation,
often given concurrently for the first six weeks.