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Dorothy Brooks

Scientists Used Vitamin B12 to Sneak a Cancer-Killer into the Brain, and It Worked on Tumors in Animal Studies

Glioblastoma is one of the most lethal diagnoses in medicine. Even with surgery, radiation therapy, and chemotherapy, most patients survive less than 15 months. One fundamental reason is the blood-brain barrier, a protective biological system that blocks most drugs from reaching the brain at therapeutic concentrations.

A newly published study in Oncoscience describes a potential strategy for bypassing that barrier: use vitamin B12 as a molecular carrier.

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