Andressa Letícia Lopes da Silva, Thiago Pina Goes de Araújo, Shakira Cavalcante de Albuquerque Ferreira, Anderson Brandão Leite, João Kaycke Sarmento da Silva, Lilyana Waleska Nunes Albuquerque, Ana Rachel Vasconcelos de Lima, Herbert Charles Silva Barros, Leandro Rocha Silva, Edeildo Ferreira da Silva-Júnior, João Xavier de Araújo-Júnior, Vivaldo Moura Neto, Aline Cavalcanti de Queiroz, Magna Suzana Alexandre-Moreira
Glioblastoma multiforme (GBM) is the most common type of cancer that affects the central nervous system (CNS). It currently accounts for about 2% of diagnosed malignant tumors worldwide, with 296,000 new cases reported per year. The first-choice treatment consists of surgical resection, radiotherapy, and adjuvant chemotherapy, which increases patients' survival by 15 months. New clinical and pre-clinical research aims to improve this prognosis by proposing the search for new drugs that effectively eliminate cancer cells, circumventing problems such as resistance to treatment...
August 30, 2023: Current Protein & Peptide Science