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Starving Cancer: New Diet Slows Growth of Deadliest Brain Tumors in Mice


Researchers have discovered that brain cancer cells reprogram their sugar metabolism, a vulnerability that can be exploited in mice to impede tumor growth and enhance therapeutic outcomes. Glioblastomas are the most aggressive type of malignant brain tumor, and patients diagnosed with this condit

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