«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.
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.