A crystal ball for brain cancer?
Thursday, July 30, 2009 - 04:00
in Health & Medicine
UCLA researchers have uncovered a new way to scan brain tumours and predict which ones will be shrunk by the drug Avastin - before the patient ever starts treatment. By linking high water movement in tumours to positive drug response, the UCLA team predicted with 70 percent accuracy which patients' tumours were the least likely to grow six months after therapy...