People who are diagnosed with a malignant brain tumor known as glioblastoma survive just 14 months on average. Though this brain tumor typically produces symptoms only 90 days before detection, a new Ohio State University study found changes in immune system proteins may occur a full five years before diagnosis, while other alterations begin even earlier.
“We have identified an interaction between [two proteins] and glioma that is present long before tumor diagnosis,” wrote Dr. Judith Schwartzbaum, lead author and associate professor of epidemiology, and her colleagues.
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