Scientists develop new method to treat cancer
Q. What are brain tumours known as?- Published on 26 Feb 16a. Sarcoma
b. Gliobastoma
c. Angioblastoma
d. None of the above
ANSWER: Gliobastoma
In what is the first step of its kind, researchers have developed a method to turn skin calls into cancer hunting stem cells which can destroy glioblastoma/brain tumour. Survival rate beyond two years for a patient with glioblastoma is 30 percent because it is so difficult to treat. The new technique is based upon the most recent version of the Nobel Prize-winning technology from 2007, which allowed researchers to turn skin cells into embryonic-like stem cells. Researchers reprogrammed skin cells known as fibroblasts producing collagen and connective tissue become induced neural stem cells. Next steps will be using this finding to focus on human stem cells and test effective anti cancer drugs that can be loaded into tumour seeking neural stem cells.
