What is Brain Cancer
So what is Brain Cancer? To start let’s explain that Brain cancer is a hideous affliction — in many respects harder on the family than the one with the cancer. I’ve dealt with losing friends and family to brain cancer, so I know how the course of such cancer often proceeds. The prognosis for those with primary brain cancer is not promising. Out of the 17,000 people diagnosed with primary brain cancer in the United States each year, about 13,000 perish from the disease. Gene therapy against brain cancer is receiving increased research attention. In January, researchers in San Diego treated a 51-year-old woman with her own cells, genetically altered to contain a gene for interleukin 2, a protein that bolsters the attack cells in the immune system. So now that we know the basics of what is Brain Cancer, we need to explain that Brain cancer is diagnosed in [...]