Discovery makes brain tumour cells more responsive to radiation

Thursday, December 3, 2009 - 05:22 in Biology & Nature

Duke University Medical Centre 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 signalling 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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