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SUBMITTER: Jahangiri A
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5571827 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Jan
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Jahangiri Arman A Chin Aaron T AT Flanigan Patrick M PM Chen Rebecca R Bankiewicz Krystof K Aghi Manish K MK
Journal of neurosurgery 20160401 1
Glioblastoma is the most common malignant brain tumor, and it carries an extremely poor prognosis. Attempts to develop targeted therapies have been hindered because the blood-brain barrier prevents many drugs from reaching tumors cells. Furthermore, systemic toxicity of drugs often limits their therapeutic potential. A number of alternative methods of delivery have been developed, one of which is convection-enhanced delivery (CED), the focus of this review. The authors describe CED as a therapeu ...[more]