-- Cancer cells
invade the normal brain, which makes them difficult to treat.
«We are talking about fast - growing tumors that
invade normal brain tissue and are very difficult to treat,» said Orin Bloch, MD, a neurosurgeon at Northwestern Memorial Hospital and lead author of the study.
TGen researchers have linked TROY to the cellular mechanisms that enable glioblastomas to
invade normal brain cells, and resist anti-cancer drugs.
Not exact matches
Glioblastoma is the most lethal form of primary
brain tumor and leads to death in patients by
invading the
brain tissue in a process that allows single cells to move through
normal brain tissue, which makes complete surgical removal of the tumor impossible.
«The Raman spectroscopy probe has a greater than 92 % accuracy in identifying cancer cells that have
invaded into
normal brain.»