{"id":14064,"date":"2019-09-19T08:56:19","date_gmt":"2019-09-19T12:56:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=14064"},"modified":"2019-09-19T08:56:19","modified_gmt":"2019-09-19T12:56:19","slug":"deadly-brain-cancers-act-like-vampires-by-hijacking-normal-cells-to-grow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=14064","title":{"rendered":"Deadly Brain Cancers Act Like &#8216;Vampires&#8217; By Hijacking Normal Cells To Grow"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(By Jon Hamilton for NPR)<\/p>\n<p>Researchers are beginning to understand why certain brain cancers are so hard to stop.<\/p>\n<p>Three studies published Wednesday in the journal\u00a0<em>Nature\u00a0<\/em>found that these deadly tumors integrate themselves into the brain&#8217;s electrical network and then hijack signals from healthy nerve cells to fuel their own growth.\u00a0 Continue reading article <a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/sections\/health-shots\/2019\/09\/18\/761916153\/deadly-brain-cancers-act-like-vampires-by-hijacking-normal-cells-to-grow\">here&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/NPR-logo.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3902\" src=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/NPR-logo.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"152\" height=\"55\" srcset=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/NPR-logo.png 152w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/NPR-logo-150x55.png 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 152px) 100vw, 152px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<pre>Notice: The link provided above connects readers to the full content of the posted article. The URL (internet address) for this link is valid on the posted date; medicarereport.org cannot guarantee the duration of the link\u2019s validity. Also, the opinions expressed in these postings are the viewpoints of the original source and are not explicitly endorsed by AMAC, Inc.; the AMAC Foundation, Inc.; or medicarereport.org.<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(By Jon Hamilton for NPR) Researchers are beginning to understand why certain brain cancers are so hard to stop. Three<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14064","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health-care-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14064","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14064"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14064\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14065,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14064\/revisions\/14065"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14064"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14064"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14064"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}