In spite of intensive research, glioblastoma remains one of the most ... cells attempting to repair the DNA damage caused by the drug. Unfortunately, glioblastomas often evade treatment by ...

Beyond surgery, the standard treatment for glioblastoma involves radiotherapy and chemotherapy ... which makes it difficult to design a drug that binds to one and not the others.

To take advantage of the characteristics of these innate immune cells, researchers at China Pharmaceutical University encased paclitaxel, a traditional chemotherapy drug, with lipids. These liposome ...

Many patients are unaware that oral chemotherapy like Temozolomide is covered by health insurance policies due to special ...

Glioblastoma multiforme is difficult to ... A Gliadel wafer, a biodegradable disc loaded with the chemotherapy drug carmustine, is often inserted into the brain after surgery to try to kill ...

In high-grade gliomas (17 glioblastoma). 1 Department of Medical Oncology, Bellaria-Maggiore Hospital, Azienda USL of Bologna, Bologna, Italy 2 Department of Neurosurgery, Bellaria-Maggiore ...

Over this time, the chemotherapy did not kill the tumor, which indicates a very strong drug resistance of the glioblastoma to the chemotherapy. Next, we want to use these models to study tumor cell ...

[13] After surgery, nine patients had reirradiation and 24 had chemotherapy. The median survival after reoperation was 8, 13, 22 and 47 months for glioblastoma, anaplastic astrocytoma, astrocytoma ...

Currently, glioblastoma is treated by killing cancerous cells with chemotherapy and radiation, and with immunotherapies that rev up the body’s own defenses. Mayo suggests that combining these ...