HAMILTON, July 2 -- Glioblastoma does not just grow. It recruits. The most aggressive brain cancer known to medicine reaches into a patient's own immune system and turns the cells meant to fight infection into bodyguards for the tumor itself. A new therapy out of McMaster University is built to attack that betrayal directly, not just the cancer cells sitting behind it.

The research, published in Nature on July 1 and led by Sheila Singh, a professor of surgery and director of the Centre for Discovery in Cancer Research at McMaster, with co-lead author Shan Grewal, drew on collaborators at King's College London, Northwestern University, the University of Calgary, the University of Toronto and the Hospital for Sick Children. Their target wa...