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Sociedade Beneficente de Senhoras (SBSHSL). Hospital Sírio-Libanês (Institutional affiliation from the last research proposal) Birthplace: Brazil
Natália Cristina dos Santos in research grants and scholarships supported by FAPESP.
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Astrocytomas are aggressive tumors from the central nervous system (CNS) developing from astrocytes. The most common and fatal subtype is the Glioblastoma Multiforme (GBM, grade IV, WHO). High-grade astrocytomas (grades III and IV) exhibit a so-called "infiltrative growth" pattern of brain spreading, which emerges as a combination of uncontrolled cell proliferation and intense parenchymal…
Widespread brain infiltration is a hallmark of malignant brain tumors. Particularly in the case of glioblastomas (GBM) - the most common and aggressive type of brain tumors in adults -, despite maximal initial tumor resection and multimodality therapy, 90% of GBM patients will experience disease recurrence within few years of treatment, mainly due to their aggressive invasiveness into the…
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