NFCR Scientists Discover Brain Tumor’s “Escape Path”

Posted By: Anonymous | Posted On: Jan 27,2010 18:30 pm | View: 12 NFCR Scientists Webster Cavenee, Ph.D., and Frank Furnari, Ph.D., along with their team at the Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research at the University of California San Diego School of Medicine, have recently discovered one way that brain tumors manage to escape an attack launched by certain “smart drugs” designed to stop tumor growth. This breakthrough discovery revealed a new cellular mechanism that could be used to develop a more effective treatment strategy for malignant gliomas, the most common type of primary brain tumors. Read More: http://www.prweb.com/releases/2010/01/prweb3525564.htm