Study: Radiation causes cognition damage in brain cancer patients
Nov. 14 (UPI) -- Treating brain tumors in children can take away one problem while bringing about another. More than half the patients who receive radiation therapy to treat brain tumors get irreversible cognitive damage, and those consequences are especially harmful to children. But that could all soon change. According to a study published Tuesday in the journal eLife, the drug PLX5622 can stop radiation-related cognitive decline could be the the answer. "When the brain's immune system is activated by an insult, like radiation, we generally see that microglia start to affect synapses," Susanna Rosi, a professor in the Departments of Physical Therapy and of Neurological Surgery at University of California San Francisco and co-senior author of the study, said in a press release. In past ...