VB-111 Gene Therapy Doubles Survival In Recurrent Glioblastoma

Saturday, October 3, 2015 - 14:10 in Health & Medicine

Glioblastoma is an aggressive brain cancer that kills two-thirds of patients within five years. A patient's outlook with recurrence of the disease is considered to be weeks or months. An experimental gene therapy essentially doubled the overall survival of patients with recurrent glioblastoma compared to the current standard of care, a researcher said October 1st at the Cancer Therapy&Research Center (CTRC) at The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio.  read more

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