{"id":242586,"date":"2026-08-12T05:20:54","date_gmt":"2026-08-12T10:20:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/08\/this-deadly-brain-cancer-hijacks-brain-activity-to-fuel-its-growth-study-reveals"},"modified":"2026-08-12T05:20:54","modified_gmt":"2026-08-12T10:20:54","slug":"this-deadly-brain-cancer-hijacks-brain-activity-to-fuel-its-growth-study-reveals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/08\/this-deadly-brain-cancer-hijacks-brain-activity-to-fuel-its-growth-study-reveals","title":{"rendered":"This Deadly Brain Cancer Hijacks Brain Activity to Fuel Its Growth, Study Reveals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/this-deadly-brain-cancer-hijacks-brain-activity-to-fuel-its-growth-study-reveals.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Of all the many forms <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/cancer\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_self\">cancer<\/a> can take, those that arise in the brain can be among the hardest to treat.<\/p>\n<p>A type of tumor known as <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Glioma\">glioma<\/a> is a particularly formidable example. These malignant growths arise from glial cells or their precursors in the brain or spinal cord; the worst form \u2013 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/this-common-drug-seems-to-fight-one-of-the-deadliest-brain-cancers\">glioblastoma<\/a> \u2013 has a 5-year survival rate of just <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mayoclinic.org\/diseases-conditions\/glioblastoma\/survival-rates\/gnc-20596050\">5 to 7 percent<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Part of the reason gliomas are so insidiously <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/sugar-coated-nanoparticles-shrink-deadly-brain-tumors-in-mice\">difficult to treat<\/a> is that they actively exploit the brain\u2019s crucial functions to feed their growth.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Of all the many forms cancer can take, those that arise in the brain can be among the hardest to treat. A type of tumor known as glioma is a particularly formidable example. These malignant growths arise from glial cells or their precursors in the brain or spinal cord; the worst form \u2013 glioblastoma \u2013 [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-242586","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242586","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=242586"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242586\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=242586"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=242586"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=242586"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}