Potential game-changer discovered to fight brain cancer at MSU [Video]

GRAND RAPIDS, Michigan — A team of scientists at Michigan State University have made a potentially huge discovery for fighting brain cancer. 

Charles Hong, the chair of medicine at MSU College of Human Medicine, said his team discovered a drug-like compound to kill glioblastoma cells while not harming normal brain cells. Glioblastoma is the most common form of brain cancer. There is no current cure. 

“It’s been known that brain cancer tumor itself is very acidic, and that brain cancers are very difficult to treat,” said Hong. “First of all, there’s a high degree of resistance, and part of the reason why brain cancers are incurable, is that they keep coming back.”

According to the National Brain Tumor Society,18,990 Americans will die from a malignant brain tumor a year. Hong said brain cancer can be “pretty much a death sentence with 100% mortality …