Genetic studies conducted on patients with glioblastoma, the most common type of brain cancer, in America suggest that this disease should be treated as two diseases not one.
New genetic studies have indicated that patients with glioblastoma, the most common type of brain cancer in America, may be helped if the condition is treated as two diseases instead of one.
Victor Velculescu of the Ludwig Center for Cancer Genetics and Therapeutics in Baltimore, Maryland, says that glioblastoma patients whose cancers carry a mutation in a gene called IDH1 are 20 years younger than those without the mutation, on average.
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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.
People with this type of the disease had a median survival time of 3.8 years after diagnosis as compared to 1.1 years for those without it, says the study report published in the journal Science.
Velculescu says that though no existing drugs target IDH1, patients with this mutation may respond differently to the drugs that are now used.
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