Structures discovered in brain cancer patients can help fight tumours ANI | Updated: Jul 06, 2021 08:40 IST
Stockholm [Sweden], July 6 (ANI): Researchers at Uppsala University in Sweden have discovered lymph node-like structures close to the tumour in brain cancer patients, where immune cells can be activated to attack the tumour.
In their study published in the journal Nature Communications, the researchers found that immunotherapy enhanced the formation of these structures in a mouse model. This discovery suggests new opportunities to regulate the anti-tumour response of the immune system.
Glioma is a deadly brain tumour with a dismal prognosis. One reason why brain tumours are very hard to treat is that our immune system, which is designed to detect and destroy foreign cells including cancer cells, cannot easily reach the tumour site due to the barriers that surround the brain.
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The Volunteer Services Council at Kerrville State Hospital has issued the following request for community support of Christmas activities and gifts this year for the KSH patients.
Courtney Compton, president of that board, and Caryn Talarico, community relations director, said the VSC is a nonprofit organization whose goal is to help KSH patients by providing resources and items which cannot be purchased with state-appropriated funds.
As this includes gifts of any kind, they said, the VSC is looking for families and businesses to âadopt a patientâ or âsponsor a unitâ for Christmas.
âWe are quickly approaching that wonderful time of year when we have the opportunity to make the Christmas season special for someone else,â they wrote. âThis Christmas will look very different for all of us, but especially our 220 patients at Kerrville State Hospital. Unfortunately, due to Covid-19, we will not be able to provide the âusualâ holiday parties,