You may never have heard it, but there is a rare but aggressive brain cancer called “glioblastoma.” Its name is as complicated as finding a drug to destroy it! Usually, when cells realize that they are getting sick, they are able to send distress messages and can self-destruct before they evolve into disease. Unfortunately, glioblastoma cancer cells are extremely intelligent; they send a lot of small molecules (“the BLOCKERS”) to intercept these messages. With this scheme, cancer cells become immortal; they can reproduce themselves and spread throughout the whole brain. So, researchers have been looking into this problem to try to find a new drug that can catch these BLOCKERS. We studied a potential therapeutic drug that catches these small molecules and locks them up, which allows the cancer cells to destroy themselves. Excitingly, we found that this drug is able to fight glioblastoma in mice!

John Robert

Managing Editor
European Journal of Clinical Oncology
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