Removing a brain tumor makes remaining cancer more aggressive

Wednesday, June 29, 2016 - 10:31 in Health & Medicine

Researchers at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill have found that removing a glioblastoma tumor from the brain causes any cancer left behind to grow 75 percent faster than the original tumor did, which helps to explain why this cancer is so lethal. “A glioblastoma is fundamentally a different disease before and after […]

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