Scientists ID potential treatment for deadliest brain cancer (IMAGE)
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“Glioblastoma is a devastating disease. Essentially no effective therapy exists,” said researcher Hui Li, PhD, of the University of Virginia School of Medicine “What’s novel here is that we’re targeting a protein that GBM cells uniquely depend on, and we can do it with a small molecule that has clear in vivo activity. To our knowledge, this pathway hasn’t been therapeutically exploited before.”
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