Cancer stem cells suppress immune response against brain tumor
Friday, January 15, 2010 - 15:42
in Health & Medicine
HOUSTON - Cancer-initiating cells that launch glioblastoma multiforme, the most lethal type of brain tumor, also suppress an immune system attack on the disease, scientists from The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center report in a paper featured on the cover of the Jan. 15 issue of Clinical Cancer Research.