Eating themselves to death

Enemy in sight A DIAGNOSIS of glioma is a death sentence. This form of brain cancer (see picture) kills half of those so identified within a year, and almost all within three. The life-extending benefits of existing therapies are measured in a few short months. But that may change, and change soon, if the results of experiments on mice, conducted by Douglas Hanahan of the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne, and reported this week in Cancer Cell, can be replicated in people. The re...