Aleksi Sedo • Rolf Mentlein
Editors

2014

Gliomas are fatal malignant diseases, but also represent excellent models for tumor research with the aim to eventually discover new and appropriate therapeutics against this and other types of cancer. Gliomas are characterized by unregulated growth, apoptosis-resistance, diffuse invasion, strongly increased angiogenesis, and immunosuppression—all hallmarks of other tumor entities, but here focused in a particularly pronounced manner.