That’s the title of an
abstract from the Ottawa Hospital Research Institute. The
summary says “A key player in brain tumor formation has been found that may
lead to new therapies for a deadly and incurable cancer. The study is the first
to show that a protein called OSMR (Oncostatin M Receptor) is required for
glioblastoma tumours to form. Glioblastoma is one of the most deadly cancers,
resistant to radiation, chemotherapy and difficult to remove with surgery.”
I don’t have anything to add to
the quotes from the lead author, which I’ve cut and pasted in the following:
"The fact that most patients with
these brain tumours live only 16 months is just heartbreaking," said Dr.
Arezu Jahani-Asl, the lead author who performed this research largely in Ottawa
while she was a postdoctoral fellow co supervised by Dr. Michael Rudnicki at
The Ottawa Hospital and the University of Ottawa and by Dr. Azad Bonni from
Harvard Medical School and Washington University School of Medicine.
"Right now there is no effective treatment, and that's what drives me to
study this disease." Dr. Jahani-Asl is now an assistant professor in the
Department of Oncology at McGill University and a principal investigator at the
Jewish General Hospital, with a laboratory dedicated to how glioblastoma
develops.
Here’s a link to the article: https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2016/04/160425141536.htm
PS - Please excuse the the morbid black and white graphic, but I'm feeling awfully sad about this GBM and the near term options for victims which, at this moment, still seem to be slim and none.
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