Research at the McMaster University and the Cleveland Clinic and Case Comprehensive Cancer Center have uncovered how a protein long associated with Alzheimer’s disease helps lung cancer spread to the brain – offering hope that an existing drug could be repurposed in preventing cancer’s spread.
The Hamilton Regional Biospecimen Services program will create a single system for collecting, storing, analyzing and sharing biological samples for research between McMaster University, Hamilton Health Sciences and St. Joseph's Healthcare Hamilton.
The researchers have discovered a critical vulnerability in metastatic brain cancer, which they say can be exploited with new drugs to prevent it from spreading.
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