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Riccardo Soffietti, EAN 2018 – Advances in personalised therapies for brain tumours (Part 1)

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Published Online: Jun 22nd 2018

Riccardo Soffietti (EAN Programme Committee; Chairman, Department of Neuro-Oncology, University and City of Health and Science Hospital, Turini, Italy) talks to us about the topic of the symposium he participated in entitled: Advances in molecular characterisation and personalised therapies in brain tumours. Part 1 of 2.

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1 What have been the most important recent advances in personalised medicine in brain tumours? (0:12)
2. Which do you see as the most promising therapeutic target in glioblastoma: the glial cells or immune cells? (1:09)
3. Have advances in molecular characterisation allowed us to identify any predictive or prognostic molecular biomarkers? (2:07)

View Part 2 here.

Speaker disclosure: Riccardo Soffietti has nothing to disclose in relation to this video interview.

Filmed at the 4th Congress of the European Academy of Neurology (EAN), Lisbon, Portugal, June 2018.

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