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Brain cancer: a promising new treatment against glioblastoma

2024-03-15T16:55:48.765Z

Highlights: Brain cancer: a promising new treatment against glioblastoma. Three patients suffering from this incurable form of brain cancer received innovative treatment. In the hours following the injection, the tumor shrank spectacularly. A temporary benefit, however. This very aggressive brain tumor affects around 3,000 people each year in France. It is one of the cancers with the worst prognosis and one of those for which treatments have progressed the least over the last ten years. Despite numerous obstacles, this cancer continues to be the subject of very active research.


Three patients suffering from this incurable form of brain cancer received innovative treatment. In the hours following the injection, the tumor shrank spectacularly. A temporary benefit, however.


Glioblastoma is a formidable cancer that medicine cannot cure.

At least, not yet.

This very aggressive brain tumor affects around 3,000 people each year in France.

It is one of the cancers with the worst prognosis and one of those for which treatments have progressed the least over the last ten years ,

notes Professor Olivier Chinot, head of the neuro-oncology department at the Timone hospital (Marseille).

Despite numerous obstacles, this cancer continues to be the subject of very active research, suggesting the arrival of new therapies in the coming years.

A team from Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston has just revealed the results of a new treatment in the prestigious

New England Journal of Medicine

.

And these are very promising, even if they are still preliminary.

While many types of cancer have benefited from the development of immunotherapies – a therapeutic strategy…

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Source: lefigaro

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