Zika virus, feared for causing microcephaly in babies whose mothers were infected during pregnancy by attacking the cells that will give rise to the fetus's cerebral cortex, could be an alternative
for treatment of glioblastoma, the most common and aggressive kind of malignant brain tumor in adults.
«Zika could be a candidate for
the treatment of glioblastoma.»
Thus, the virus could be an alternative for
the treatment of glioblastoma, which is highly resistant to chemotherapy drugs.
Researchers analyzed data on 5,607 adult patients from the National Cancer Institute (NCI) Surveillance, Epidemiology and End Results (SEER) database before and after the conditional approval of bevacizumab for
the treatment of glioblastoma in 2009.
City of Hope researchers have found that using CAR T therapy, a type of immunotherapy, can be effective in
the treatment of glioblastoma — one of the most aggressive brain tumors known to medicine.
«This is a very exciting advance in our understanding of cancer, and perhaps a first step toward a personalized, precision approach to
the treatment of glioblastoma,» said Stephen G. Emerson, MD, PhD, director of the HICCC and the Clyde ’56 and Helen Wu Professorship in Immunology at the Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons.
Targeting metabolism with a ketogenic diet during
the treatment of glioblastoma multiforme.