Endocrine Abstracts

Gliomas are a common tumor type that affects the glial cells with common features of malignant tumors such as aggressive invasiveness, malignant transformation and vascular proliferation through the central nervous system. Currently, standard therapeutic strategies to treat malignant gliomas are not efficient having alow-rate survival (~12 months). Hence, there is a clear necessity for the identification of novel diagnostic/prognostic tools and therapeutic strategies to m...