Angiogenesis Inhibitor Improves Brain Tumor Survival By Reducing Edema
Monday, April 6, 2009 - 23:35
in Health & Medicine
The beneficial effects of anti-angiogenesis drugs in the treatment of the deadly brain tumors called glioblastomas appear to result primarily from reduction of edema -- the swelling of brain tissue -- and not from any direct anti-tumor effect. A new report describes how treatment with the experimental drug cediranib reduced edema and improved survival in three mouse models of glioblastoma.