(HealthDay News) -- A new method to prevent recurrence of deadly glioblastoma brain cancer shows promise, say U.S. scientists.<\/p>
Radiation can temporarily shrink a glioblastoma tumor, but the cancer nearly always recurs within weeks or months. Few people with this type of brain cancer survive more than two years after diagnosis.<\/p>
In a study on mice, Stanford University School of Medicine researchers found that blocking access to oxygen and nutrients prevents tumor recurrence.<\/p>
The first step, they said, was discovering that tumors blasted with radiation use a secondary pathway to generate blood vessels needed for regrowth.<\/p>
\"Under normal circumstances, this pathway is not important for growth of most tumors,\" senior author Martin Brown, a professor of radiology, said in a Stanford news release. \"What we hadn't realized until recently is that radiation meant to kill the cancer cells also destroys the existing blood vessels that nourish the tumor. As a result, it has to rely on a backup blood delivery pathway.\"<\/p>
The Stanford team used a molecule called AMD3100 to block the secondary glioblastoma tumor growth process in mice.<\/p>
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