British scientists may have found a way to stop cancers spreading to the brain.
British scientists may have found a way to stop cancers spreading to the brain.
The research team discovered that cancer cells hijack the brain's blood vessels to get all the nourishment they need to seed themselves there.
About Brain Tumor
Brain tumors are the abnormal growth of brain cells that may be benign or metastatic. Brain tumors account for about 2.4% of all the tumor diagnosesandare most challenging due to their critically delicate location.
Brain tumors are the abnormal growth of brain cells that may be benign or metastatic. Brain tumors account for about 2.4% of all the tumor diagnosesandare most challenging due to their critically delicate location.
Researchers at Oxford University, with funding from Cancer Research UK, the Medical Research Council and the US National Institutes of Health, wanted to investigate exactly how cancers spread.
After analyses, Dr Shawn Carbonell and his team found that the metastatic cancer cells start to grow on the walls of blood vessels in the brain in over 95 percent of cases, and not on the nerve cells.
Top Ten Facts About Brain Tumors
Quick valuable reference that enlists interesting facts about brain tumors.
Quick valuable reference that enlists interesting facts about brain tumors.
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