Preventing secondary brain tumors

Up to 40% of cancer patients develop secondary brain tumors shortly after surgery to remove a primary tumor elsewhere in the body. Researchers at Tel Aviv University have shown that an intravenous injection of CpG-C (synthetic DNA material) can prevent these metastases forming.

https://www.israel21c.org/novel-immunotherapy-may-prevent-brain-metastases/

https://journals.plos.org/plosbiology/article?id=10.1371/journal.pbio.2006859

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