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Brain tumour invasion along blood vessels may lead to new cancer treatments.

NIH-funded researchers map brain tumour cells disrupting the blood-brain barrier, offering potential avenues for therapy. Invading glioblastoma cells may hijack cerebral blood vessels during early stages of disease progression and damage the brain’s protective barrier, a study in mice indicates. This finding could ultimately lead to new ways to bring about the death of the tumour, as therapies may be able to reach these deadly cells at an earlier time point than was previously thought possible.

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