How Does Solid Stress from Brain Tumors Damage Healthy Tissue? (VIDEO)

Massachusetts General Hospital

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A Mass. General Hospital study reveals how solid stress from nodular brain tumors compresses adjacent healthy tissue, restricts blood supply and damages neurons. The psychiatric drug lithium may be able to reduce these effects.

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Giorgio Seano, PhD, Steele Laboratories of Tumor Biology, Department of Radiation Oncology, Massachusetts General Hospital

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