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Brain Cancer
Studies in the area of brain cancer reported from University Hospital
April 28th, 2009
"Malignant gliomas are frequent primary brain tumors associated with poor prognosis and very limited response to conventional chemo-and radio-therapies. Besides sharing common growth features with other types of solid tumors, gliomas are highly invasive into adjacent brain tissue, which renders them particularly aggressive and their surgical resection inefficient," scientists writing in the journal BMC Cancer report. "Therefore, insights into glioma formation are of fundamental interest in order to provide novel molecular targets for diagnostic purposes and potential anti-cancer drugs. Human Tripartite motif protein 3 (TRIM3) encodes a structural homolog of...
Source: Cancer Weekly (2009-04-28)
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