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Genetically engineered cells can seek and destroy brain cancer

By Andy Coghlan

28 February 2018

An MRI scan of a glioblastoma tumour

There are very few options for treating glioblastoma

SHERBROOKE CONNECTIVITY IMAGING LAB/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY

Brain cancers are particularly difficult to treat, but at last there’s hope that a technique that has worked well for some other cancers could be adapted to treat glioblastoma.

There are currently very few options for treating glioblastomas, a type of cancer that forms from the brain’s support cells. On average, a person dies within 15 months of a glioblastoma diagnosis.

Now of the University of North Carolina and his team have had promising results in mice using a technique…

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