Syed Faaiz Enam, MBBS, PhD Profile picture
Bioengineer and Physician | Neurology resident @UTSWNeurology | BME PhD & Postdoc @DukeEngineering & @GeorgiaTech | Medical graduate @AKUGlobal
Nov 28, 2022 12 tweets 6 min read
Cooling brain tumors. Prolonging (rodent) lives.
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Out in @ScienceAdvances:
science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

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#glioblastoma #bioengineering #medicaldevices #cancer #brain Question that hit me on October 26th, 2017: is there a temperature window that stops 🛑 tumor growth, and the brain 🧠 can tolerate? If so, this could prevent tumor recurrence and buy the patient time to try therapies until we reach a cure.
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