Tumor Pathology

X-Rays Provide Stimulating Environment For Glioma Growth

Published in Cancer Weekly, January 8th, 2002

by Sonia Nichols, senior medical writer - X-rays can actually create extracellular changes that are amenable to tumor growth, researchers in Greece report.

Analyses of the effects of x-rays on chicken embryo chorioallantoic membrane (CAM), a standard model for angiogenesis, have revealed that extracellular production of several factors associated with tumor angiogenesis are often upregulated once the procedure is performed. A report of the new finding was issued in the December 2001 edition of the International Journal of Cancer.

"Fibronectin, laminin, collagen type I, integrin alpha (v)beta (3), and matrix metalloproteinase (MMP)-2 protein...

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Source: Cancer Weekly (2002-01-08)

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