Gliomas are the scariest group of brain tumors, the most common type of which is the most aggressive.
Malignant gliomas are least affected by chemotherapy and radiation. Patients only survive a year after diagnosis.
Shedding light into this seeming hopeless, fatal condition, Lund University (Sweden) research suggests that stem cells from the brain can be developed to treat gliomas.
Using the following theories:

Neural stem cells have been shown to have the ability to recognize signals from tumor cells in the brain and migrate there.
If stem cells are injected into a part of the brain in laboratory animals with a glioma in another part …read more