Israeli Scientists Claim Blocking Proteins Can Cure Brain Cancer

Israeli researchers believe they can make the most lethal brain cancer less deadly, after they stopped tumors from growing in mice and in a lab model using human cells by blocking specific proteins from reaching them.

Glioblastoma only has a 40 percent survival rate after a year and 5% after five years, even with surgery, radiotherapy and chemotherapy.

But Prof. Ronit Satchi-Fainaro said she is hopeful that her new study, conducted on mice and lab models, will make the illness “chronic but manageable or even cure it completely.”

All the mice had brain tumor growth and died within weeks, unless they took a chemical compound to block production of the P-selectin protein. The mice that took the P-selectin blocker all recovered and lived.

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