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New Drug Discovery could Halt Spread of Brain Cancer

Chase Cornelison is a post-doctoral researcher at Virginia Tech and lead author of an article published in Scientific Reports that details a solution to stopping the spread of glioblastoma in the brain.

Chase Cornelison is a post-doctoral researcher at Virginia Tech and lead author of an article published in Scientific Reports that details a solution to stopping the spread of glioblastoma in the brain.

A team of researchers may have found a solution to stopping the spread of glioblastoma with a new drug and cancer treatment method. In people who have glioblastoma, the deadliest form of brain cancer, this fluid has a much higher pressure, causing it to move fast and forcing cancer cells to spread. And a common cancer therapy, which inserts a drug directly into the tumor with a catheter, can make this fluid move even faster.

A team of researchers at Virginia Tech, led by Jennifer Munson, an assistant professor in the Department of Biomedical Engineering and Mechanics in the College of Engin...

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