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Cancer: Study Gives New Hope in Treatment of Brain Metastases

October 1, 2024

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A study published in Cell Reports Medicine by researchers at McMaster University in Hamilton, Canada, has revealed a new therapeutic strategy to prevent brain metastases by destroying the cells that cause them before they even start.

Illustration of metastatic cancer cells moving through the body in blood vessels

Illustration of metastatic cancer cells moving through the body in blood vessels

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“Stop evil before it happens!” : this is the maxim of Lao Tzu that Agatha M. Kieliszek and her colleagues have tried to apply throughout a study published in the journal Cell Reports Medicine looking for a technique to destroy cancer cells responsible for brain metastases while they are still in transit.

Canadian researchers from McMaster University then identified the weak point of these cells, an enzyme called IMPBH, and found several candidate molecules capable of targeting this enzyme and therefore destroying cancer cells before they trigger a tumor.

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