Professor Annette Byrne, Head of the RCSI Precision Cancer Medicine Group, RCSI University of Medicine and Health Sciences. Photo credit: Patrick Bolger
Research lead by RCSI University of Medicine and Health Sciences has discovered three new subtypes of brain tumour which could help to identify new and effective therapies. The novel tumour subtypes are forms of glioblastoma, the most common and most aggressive form of adult primary brain cancer with no cure currently available.
The research, published in Annals of Oncology, has identified that glioblastoma tumours can be placed into three categories based on the different kind of non-cancer cells that can be found within the tumour. These so-called tumour microenvironment cells can include immune cells and blood vessel cells.
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