Grant: Operating Grant

The incidence of secondary brain cancer (brain cancer metastasis) is rising worldwide, including in Canada. This is because advances in cancer treatment are more effective at curing primary cancers, that is cancers that develop in any organ such as the brain, breast, prostate and others. Unfortunately, cancer that has already migrated to a distant organ (called a secondary cancer) will have more time to develop and grow. There is mounting evidence that inflammation to blood vessels can facilitate the development of secondary cancer. We propose to use medical imaging to visualize inflammation in animals and establish a link with the formation of brain cancer.