Irradiating stem cell niche doubles survival in brain cancer patients
Saturday, July 24, 2010 - 05:35
in Health & Medicine
Patients with deadly glioblastomas who received high doses of radiation that hit a portion of the brain that harbours neural stem cells had double the progression-free survival time as patients who had lower doses or no radiation targeting the area, a study from the Radiation Oncology Department at UCLA's Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Centre has found...