Centre for Brain Research Seminar: Brain cancer Event as iCalendar
27 October 2011
10 - 11:30am
Venue: Lecture Theatre 039, Room 105S-039, Clocktower South Wing, City Campus.
Cultures of surgical samples from brain cancers: what do they tell us?
Professor Bruce Baguley, Auckland Cancer Society Research Centre
In conjunction with Mr Chris Furneaux and others in the Department of Neurosurgery, we have been culturing brain tumour material obtained directly at surgery. Primary cultures are grown over the first week after collection of the specimen, while cell lines are developed by sustained culture over 3-12 months. A number of questions can be addressed: Do the responses of the primary cultures reflect clinical features, such as drug response? Do the properties of the cell lines reflect those of the primary cultures or do they diverge?
The talk will be illustrated with reference to responses to the drug temozolomide, which is commonly used for treatment of glioblastoma. It will also discuss the question of whether cultures might be used to develop potential new treatments for brain cancer.
Brain tumour resection and research
Mr Chris Furneaux
, Neurosurgeon ADHB
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