NorthWest Biotherapeutics Inc (NWBO)

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Interesting article from a few days ago.

http://internetmedicine.com/2016/03/25/48727/

"Glioblastoma is universally fatal, said Fred Hutch neurosurgeon Dr. Eric Holland, whose brain cancer research team focuses on this tumor type. Patients with the more aggressive form of this cancer have a median survival of about 15 months following diagnosis, even with the standard-of-care treatment.

Right now, the standard treatment for glioblastoma is a combination of surgery, radiation and chemotherapy. There are few options when those fail, but Holland is cautiously optimistic for the future. He believes with an as-yet-to-be-determined combination of immunotherapy and precision medicine, brain cancer researchers may finally make some headway against this long intractable problem.

“For a long time this has been a very hopeless field. A lot of people who were in it were either idealists who were imagining somehow changing the world — or nihilists who knew they couldn’t. It’s been a very hard problem,” said Holland, who puts himself in the idealist camp. “But all that said, I think there actually is a crack in the door right now.”