Irradiating stem cell niche doubles survival in brain cancer patients

Sunday, July 25, 2010 - 20:21 in Health & Medicine

Patients with deadly glioblastomas who received high doses of radiation that hit a portion of the brain that harbors neural stem cells had double the progression-free survival time as patients who had lower doses or no radiation targeting the area, a study has found.

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