USask researchers discover possible new treatment for brain cancer | Globalnews.ca - Global News

Mike Moser set out to develop a new method of killing brain cancer cells, while preserving the tissue around it.

“But the results that we found was when we used an IRE-like machine on cells, the brain cancer cells were a lot more sensitive to the IRE than the normal cells we tested it on,” says Dr.

But at the same time, we want to minimize the amount of injury to the other cells and so that was a really useful finding,” says Moser.

“Because it’s so brief, it’s really, really safe, and that allows us to use it just about anywhere in the body,” says Moser.

“And we’re hoping for the same thing in the brain, that this can be accessed with just a few little holes, and without having to open up the skull, just like we avoid opening up the abdomen most of the time when we use IRE,” says Moser.