Treatment
It is very difficult to treat glioblastoma due to several complicating factors:
- The tumor cells are very resistant to conventional therapies
- The brain is susceptible to damage due to conventional therapy
- The brain has a very limited capacity to repair itself
- Many drugs cannot cross the blood–brain barrier to act on the tumor
Treatment of primary brain tumors and brain metastases consists of both symptomatic and palliative therapies.
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