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May 1, 2009 1:09 pm US/Pacific

UCSF To Receive Funding For Brain Cancer Research

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The National Institutes of Health will give the University of California at San Francisco $231,750 for a project to improve the effects of cancer drugs on brain tumors that are resistant to treatment, Congresswoman Jackie Speier, D-San Mateo, announced Thursday.

The funding is for a UCSF project that exploits markers found in the tumor that might possibly be made more receptive to commonly prescribed cancer drugs.

Glioblastoma is the most common and aggressive type of human brain tumor, accounting for 52 percent of all primary brain tumor cases and affecting about 20,000 Americans, according to Speier's office.

Patients with glioblastoma survive about 12 to 15 months, on average, from when it is diagnosed, with only 5 percent living for more than five years.

"Any money going to UCSF is money well spent, but this relatively small sum could lead to huge advances for the sufferers of a devastating form of cancer," Speier said in a prepared statement.

"I lost two close friends to glioblastoma, so I know that it is so deadly, in part, because of its stubbornness in responding to treatment," Speier said.