What a pity that Zhanna Friske and Anastasia Khabenskaya did not live to see this moment!
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Scientists at Johns Hopkins University have just unveiled an experimental gel to treat some forms of brain cancer. Including glioblastoma. Using it in combination with surgery, biologists were able to completely get rid of the disease in experimental mice.
Glioblastoma is rarely curable: surgery, radiotherapy and chemotherapy often do not give any results, and in some cases are contraindicated. The survival rate of patients is only 6.8 percent, and the average life expectancy is no more than eight months.
Scientists came up with the idea to administer the anti-cancer drug paclitaxel in the form of a solution. Once it reaches the brain, it turns into a hydrogel that fills the gaps in those parts of the tumor that surgeons could not remove. It also delivers the CD47 antibody, which prevents cancer cells from taking over immune cells.
This treatment has yet to undergo clinical trials. Would rather. Perhaps he will help Anastasia Zavorotnyuk recover.
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