The cause and potential treatment of a deadly brain cancer uncovered

The Yale Cancer Center has recently published a paper that outlines the cause of a serious form of brain tumor.

Yale researchers, in partnership with the researchers in Germany and Gilead Sciences, have identified the factors that can stimulate the conversion of a premalignant tumor called gliomas to the malignant form of the tumor called Glioblastoma. The team has also discovered a therapy that can help in controlling this lethal form of brain cancer. The paper was published in the Nature Genetics on November 30, 2015.

“The study involved an unbiased research about how the premalignant gliomas turned malignant. The study has …read more