Scientists believe that they have found a method that will stop the development of cancer tumors metastasizing to the brain, the BBC.

As you know, cancer cells penetrate into the blood vessels to get all the nutrition they need. The cause of this is the protein on the surface of cancer cells, called integrin, which allows cancer cells to linger in the vessels. Drugs that will block integrin, can prevent or stop the development of cancer in the brain, where cancer cells are rushing to the bloodstream, researchers believe, according to an online edition for girls and women from 14 to 35 years old Pannochka. Net One fifth of all patients with oncological diseases spread the disease to the brain with metastases.

Metastases in the brain - the most common problem of the central nervous system in cancer, it exceeds by 10 times the number of those tumors that occur directly in the brain. Once the metastases reach the brain, even with intensive treatment, the survival time is on average nine months, experts explained..

Experts hope that they will be able to develop a drug that will block integrin on the surface of cancer cells, thereby it will stop the development of cancer and save the lives of many people. The study was published in a recent issue of the journal PloS.

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