According to an article
posted on Accelerate Brain Tumor Cure
“Brain tumors fly under the radar of the body’s defense forces by coating their
cells with extra amounts of a specific protein, new research shows.
Like a stealth fighter jet,
the coating means the cells evade detection by the early-warning immune system
that should detect and kill them. The stealth approach lets the tumors hide
until it’s too late for the body to defeat them.”
Now that’s just unfair. We
have a hard enough time killing the little buggers when we find them. And,
disturbingly, these occur in “…some of the most dangerous brain tumors, called
high grade malignant gliomas.”
Learning that lethal gliomas
have stealth capacity is just another reason to sleep uneasily.
Here’s a link to the article
I originally read: http://abc2.org/article/brain-tumors-fly-under-radar-stealth-jets-new-u-m-research-suggests
And here’s a link to the
original abstract in the journal Cancer
Research: http://cancerres.aacrjournals.org/content/early/2014/07/18/0008-5472.CAN-14-1203.abstract
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