Northwestern Medicine achieves breakthrough in glioblastoma treatment

In what is being hailed as a major breakthrough, scientists from Northwestern Medicine have successfully used ultrasound technology to target and treat glioblastoma, a deadly brain cancer, potentially prolonging patients' lives.Glioblastoma, the most common and aggressive form of malignant brain tumor in adults, currently has no cure.

"One of the main reasons why these tumors are so resilient to treatment is because they’re hidden in the brain from whatever drugs are circulating in the blood. Another important reason why they are very difficult to treat is because they have actually blockaded the immune system; they really avoid and depress any immune response," said Dr. Sonabend Worthalter, a professor of neurological surgery at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine.

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