Targeting brain cancer cell metabolism may provide new treatment

Wednesday, December 16, 2009 - 06:56 in Health & Medicine

Inhibiting fatty acid synthesis in brain cancer cells may offer a new option to treat about 50 percent of deadly glioblastomas that are driven by amplified signalling of the epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR), according to a first-of-its-kind study by researchers at UCLA's Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Centre...

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