Discovery makes brain tumor cells more responsive to radiation

Courtesy EurekAlert! - Cancer  Tue, 12/01/2009 - 23:00

(Duke University Medical Center) Duke University Medical Center researchers have figured out how stem cells in the malignant brain cancer glioma may be better able to resist radiation therapy.

And using a drug to block a particular signaling pathway in these cancer stem cells, they were able to kill many more glioma cells with radiation in a laboratory experiment.


 

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