Irradiating stem cell niche doubles survival in brain cancer patients

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26.07.2010
Patients with deadly glioblastomas who received high doses of radiation that hit a portion of the brain that harbors 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 Center has found.

http://www.innovations-report.de/html/berichte/biowissenschaften_chemie/irradiating_stem_cell_niche_doubles_survival_brain_158771.html


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