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Out of all types of brain tumors, glioblastoma is the most widespread and deadly one, affecting the vast majority of brain cancer patients. Within only a few months, the affected tissue spans the size of an apple, and death is the inevitable result. Despite decades of research, no viable cure for the condition has been devised to date, but that could soon change. A new study has revealed the 31 mutated gene-network that allows the tumor to adapt to drugs, as well as the gene that can fight it, but that is suppressed when the disease sets in. One of the first things that glioblastomas do when they start developing in the brain is wipe out chromosome 10, which was just recently been found to be the source of the newly discovered Annexin A7 gene. The amounts of this gene in the tumors are used by doctors to determine exactly how long a patient has to live after the diagnostic is given. The recent paper, written by experts at the Northwestern University (NU) Feinberg School of!
Medicine (FSM), shows that A7 plays a vital role in stopping tumor growth, and that the tumors struggle to have it removed as early on as possible. “These 31 genes are the kingpins in what you could call an organized crime network of genes that enable the tumor to grow with breathtaking speed. These 31 genes are highly connected to a...
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