http://www.medindia.net/healthnews/Brain-Tumor-news.asp Medindia largest health website in india. en-us Copyright 2012. All Rights Reserved. Fri, 25 May 2012 04:40:49 GMT http://www.medindia.net/news/headaches-in-one-twin-led-to-diagnosis-of-brain-tumor-in-other-101687-1.htm Displaying the mysterious power of telepathy among twins, a 38-year old man in Australia underwent a life saving surgery to remove a tumor in his brain after his twin complained of headaches and made him to undergo an MRI scan. Craig Gurney from Sydney revealed that his brother Brenton initially underwent an MRI scan after complaining of persistent headaches. However when doctors found no problem with the scan, Brenton asked Craig to get a scan himself and doctors found a massive tumor in his brain....]]> http://www.medindia.net/news/headaches-in-one-twin-led-to-diagnosis-of-brain-tumor-in-other-101687-1.htm http://www.medindia.net/news/nanoparticles-improve-brain-tumor-treatment-by-spotlighting-cancer-cells-100182-1.htm Nanoparticles developed by researchers at Stanford University School of Medicine can improve the effectiveness of treating brain tumors by putting a spotlight on cancer cells that need to be removed completely. In a study to be published online April 15 in INature Medicine/I, a team led by Sam Gambhir, MD, PhD, professor and chair of radiology, showed that the minuscule nanoparticles engineered in his lab homed in on and highlighted brain tumors, precisely delineating their boundaries and greatly easing their complete removal....]]> http://www.medindia.net/news/nanoparticles-improve-brain-tumor-treatment-by-spotlighting-cancer-cells-100182-1.htm http://www.medindia.net/news/link-between-dental-x-rays-and-common-brain-tumor-99923-1.htm Frequent dental x-rays are linked to meningioma - a common brain tumor, shows study published in Cancer. "The findings suggest that dental x-rays obtained in the past at increased frequently and at a young age, may be associated with increased risk of developing this common type of brain tumor," said Elizabeth Claus, MD, PhD, a neurosurgeon at BWH and Yale University School of Medicine at New Haven. "This research suggests that although dental x-rays are an important tool in maintaining ...]]> http://www.medindia.net/news/link-between-dental-x-rays-and-common-brain-tumor-99923-1.htm http://www.medindia.net/news/3d-model-of-brain-tumor-created-97735-1.htm A three dimensional model of glioma or brain tumor surrounding with blood vessels has been created by Brown University scientists. The researchers created a glioma, or brain tumor, and the network of blood vessels that surrounds it. In a series of experiments, the team showed that iron-oxide nanoparticles ferrying the chemical tumstatin penetrated the blood vessels that sustain the tumor with oxygen and nutrients. The iron-oxide nanoparticles are important, because they are readily taken ...]]> http://www.medindia.net/news/3d-model-of-brain-tumor-created-97735-1.htm http://www.medindia.net/news/new-hope-for-fatal-brain-tumor-offered-by-uc-san-diego-moores-cancer-center-97100-1.htm Jim Black is combating recurrent glioblastoma multiforme (GBM), the toughest, most aggressive, usual kind of brain tumor in the United States. In the United States, each year, approximately 10,000 patients are affected by GBM. Now, a novel investigational device - available only at clinical trial sites - is offering new hope to these patients. The non-invasive procedure - called Tumor Treating Fields (TTF) - is delivered using a portable device - called the NovoTTF-100A System made by Novocure....]]> http://www.medindia.net/news/new-hope-for-fatal-brain-tumor-offered-by-uc-san-diego-moores-cancer-center-97100-1.htm http://www.medindia.net/news/Abnormal-Chromosome-Has-Prognostic-Value-in-Rare-Brain-Tumor-96492-1.htm A chromosomal abnormality has definitive prognostic and predictive value for managing the treatment of adult patients with a a rare type of brain tumor, a recent analysis of clinical trial results performed by the Radiation Therapy Oncology Group (RTOG) has demonstrated. The presence of the chromosomal abnormality was associated with a substantially better prognosis and near-doubling of median survival time when treatment with combined chemotherapy and radiation therapy was compared to treatment with radiation therapy alone....]]> http://www.medindia.net/news/Abnormal-Chromosome-Has-Prognostic-Value-in-Rare-Brain-Tumor-96492-1.htm http://www.medindia.net/news/Risk-for-Brain-Tumor-Doubles-With-High-Blood-Pressure-95154-1.htm People with high blood pressure may be at increased risk of developing brain tumors, according to researchers from Sweden, Austria and Norway. Following the Analysis of health records over 10 years of 580,000 patients researchers found that the overall risk is double for people with the highest blood pressure levels, compared to those with the lowest. While, it increases up to fourfold for people with meningioma and high blood pressure. The most common tumors that were diagnosed during the study were meningioma and glioma....]]> http://www.medindia.net/news/Risk-for-Brain-Tumor-Doubles-With-High-Blood-Pressure-95154-1.htm http://www.medindia.net/news/Weather-Forecasting-Models-Could-Predict-Brain-Tumor-Growth-Study-95083-1.htm Mathematical methodology used to assimilate data for weather forecasting could predict the spread of brain tumors, shows study published in BioMed Central's open access journal iBiology Direct/i The authors from the Arizona State University and the Barrow Neurological Institute, Arizona, USA, wanted to prove that mathematical methods used in weather prediction could be useful in clinical situations - not just in brain cancer, but also in other cancers and diseases. They chose to study ...]]> http://www.medindia.net/news/Weather-Forecasting-Models-Could-Predict-Brain-Tumor-Growth-Study-95083-1.htm http://www.medindia.net/news/Allergy-and-Brain-Tumor-Risk-92272-1.htm Allergies help cut the risk of developing brain tumors, suggests study. People with somewhat elevated blood levels of immunoglobulin E (IgE), antibodies that carry out the body's immune response to allergens, were significantly less likely to develop gliomas, and those who did survived somewhat longer, than those with clinically normal IgE levels, according to the study by a team of researchers at Brown University and several other institutions in the United States and Europe. "These results ...]]> http://www.medindia.net/news/Allergy-and-Brain-Tumor-Risk-92272-1.htm http://www.medindia.net/news/UK-Has-a-New-Brain-Tumor-Tissue-Bank--90927-1.htm A novel brain tumor tissue bank has been launched at the Southern General Hospital in Glasgow. This project owes its existence to the persistent efforts of Anita Smith, who worked hard to better the lot of victims of brain tumor after she lost her 16-year-old daughter, Charlotte, to brain tumor in 2008. Mrs Smith said, "This unique brain tumour tissue bank will allow better translation of complicated science into treatment for patients such as Charlotte. We are thrilled that through our fundraising, ...]]> http://www.medindia.net/news/UK-Has-a-New-Brain-Tumor-Tissue-Bank--90927-1.htm http://www.medindia.net/news/Survival-may-be-Affected-by-Choice-of-Seizure-Drug-for-Brain-Tumor-Patients-90060-1.htm Brain tumor patients who take the seizure drug valproic acid on top of standard treatment may live longer than people who take other kinds of epilepsy medications to control seizures, says a new research. The research is published in the August 31, 2011, online issue of INeurology/IA (Regd) , the medical journal of the American Academy of Neurology. "Despite some limitations, our results suggest that the choice of seizure medications in brain tumor patients should be carefully considered as ...]]> http://www.medindia.net/news/Survival-may-be-Affected-by-Choice-of-Seizure-Drug-for-Brain-Tumor-Patients-90060-1.htm http://www.medindia.net/news/Chinese-Herbal-Remedys-Ingredient-Indirubin-Might-Block-Brain-Tumor-Spread-87679-1.htm The active ingredient in a traditional Chinese herbal remedy might help treat deadly brain tumors, according to a new study by researchers at the Ohio State University Comprehensive Cancer Center - Arthur G. James Cancer Hospital and Richard J. Solove Research Institute (OSUCCC - James). The researchers discovered that the compound, indirubin, both blocks the migration of glioblastoma cells, preventing their spread to other areas of the brain, and the migration of endothelial cells, preventing ...]]> http://www.medindia.net/news/Chinese-Herbal-Remedys-Ingredient-Indirubin-Might-Block-Brain-Tumor-Spread-87679-1.htm http://www.medindia.net/news/New-Brain-Tumor-Treatment-Possible-With-Pathway-Discovery-87527-1.htm A cellular pathway that cancer stem cells use to promote tumour growth in malignant glioma, an aggressive brain tumour, has been identified by Cleveland Clinic researchers. The research also found that existing medications block this cancer-promoting pathway and delay glioma growth in animal models, suggesting a new treatment option for these often fatal brain tumours. For patients with the most severe, aggressive form of malignant glioma median survival is 9 to 15 months with the best available therapies....]]> http://www.medindia.net/news/New-Brain-Tumor-Treatment-Possible-With-Pathway-Discovery-87527-1.htm http://www.medindia.net/news/Brain-Tumor-Discovery-Could-Pave-Way-for-New-Treatment-87508-1.htm Cleveland Clinic researchers have identified a cellular pathway that cancer stem cells use to promote tumor growth in malignant glioma, an aggressive brain tumor. The research - published in the July 8 issue of iCell/i - also found that existing medications block this cancer-promoting pathway and delay glioma growth in animal models, suggesting a new treatment option for these often fatal brain tumors. Malignant gliomas account for more than half of the 35,000-plus primary malignant ...]]> http://www.medindia.net/news/Brain-Tumor-Discovery-Could-Pave-Way-for-New-Treatment-87508-1.htm http://www.medindia.net/news/What-Makes-the-Most-Lethal-Brain-Tumor-So-Lethal-87453-1.htm A new study has offered a novel way to determine what biological functions go awry when-Glioblastoma-the most common and most lethal form of brain tumor in people first begins to form. Scientists behind the research believe that understanding the problems at the molecular level might one day reveal the underlying mechanism of carcinogenesis in glioblastoma and ultimately lead to treatments or even preventative measures. Zhongming Zhao and colleagues at Vanderbilt University, in Tennessee, ...]]> http://www.medindia.net/news/What-Makes-the-Most-Lethal-Brain-Tumor-So-Lethal-87453-1.htm http://www.medindia.net/news/Cannabis-Oil-Cures-Brain-Tumor-in-Toddler-84560-1.htm A toddler in the United States is reported to have been cured of a brain tumor after his desperate father secretly fed him with cannabis oil even though the doctors refused to discuss the option of medical marijuana. Cash Hyde, 2, fell ill shortly after his second birthday and while initially he was misdiagnosed as suffering from glandular fever, it was later found that he had a tumor on his optic nerve. The doctors could only manage to remove just 10 percent of the tumor through surgery and recommended ...]]> http://www.medindia.net/news/Cannabis-Oil-Cures-Brain-Tumor-in-Toddler-84560-1.htm http://www.medindia.net/news/People-With-Epilepsy-More-Likely-to-Develop-Brain-Tumor-83383-1.htm Epileptic seizures are linked to risk of development of brain tumor, says research. The risk seems to be greatest among those aged between 15 and 44 when first admitted to hospital for an epileptic seizure, the findings show. The researchers base their findings on first time admissions for epilepsy from the Oxford Record Linkage Study (ORLS) for 1963 to 1998, and national Hospital Episode Statistics (HES) data for England for 1999 to 2005. These data were then linked to subsequent diagnoses of or deaths from brain tumours....]]> http://www.medindia.net/news/People-With-Epilepsy-More-Likely-to-Develop-Brain-Tumor-83383-1.htm http://www.medindia.net/news/Brain-Tumor-Caused-by-Single-Gene-Defect-82344-1.htm Defect in the BRAF gene causes pilocytic astrocytoma, the most common brain tumor in children, says study. Pilocytic astrocytoma is usually slow-growing and benign. Chemotherapy or radiation therapy can lead to severe side-effects and have only little effect on these slowly growing tumors. Affected children therefore urgently need new, targeted therapies. Professor Dr. Peter Lichter of the German Cancer Research Center says that this defect causes a cellular signaling pathway, which in healthy ...]]> http://www.medindia.net/news/Brain-Tumor-Caused-by-Single-Gene-Defect-82344-1.htm http://www.medindia.net/news/Brain-Tumor-and-Gene-Mutations-82306-1.htm Researchers studied the impact of gene mutations that occurred in three important pathways, each of which has a key role in preventing glioblastoma, an aggressive brain tumor. Scientists from St. Jude Children's Research Hospital demonstrated that in mouse models of glioblastoma, tumors develop in several regions of the brain. The findings, as well as the technique investigators used to generate them, are now being used as a possible tool for understanding patients' responses to investigational ...]]> http://www.medindia.net/news/Brain-Tumor-and-Gene-Mutations-82306-1.htm http://www.medindia.net/news/Stanford-Research-Holds-Real-Promise-For-Lethal-Pediatric-Brain-Tumor-81646-1.htm A pediatric brain tumor that causes gruesome suffering is finally yielding its secrets. For the first time, scientists at the Stanford University School of Medicine have cultured human cells from this cancer, Diffuse Intrinsic Pontine Glioma, and used those cells to create an animal model of the disease. Their discoveries will facilitate research on new treatments for DIPG, a tumor of school-aged children that is now almost universally fatal. The advances come thanks to the parents of young ...]]> http://www.medindia.net/news/Stanford-Research-Holds-Real-Promise-For-Lethal-Pediatric-Brain-Tumor-81646-1.htm http://www.medindia.net/news/Allergies-Reduce-Brain-Tumor-Risk-80528-1.htm A group of American researchers have found a good side of allergies, claiming that a higher number of allergies in a person drastically reduce the risk of low and high-grade glioma. Researchers from the University of Illinois studied allergies of 419 patients suffering from glioma and 612 cancer free patients and found that those who had allergies had lower risk of suffering from the tumor compared to those who had no allergies. Commenting in the report, lead researcher Bridget McCarthy said, ...]]> http://www.medindia.net/news/Allergies-Reduce-Brain-Tumor-Risk-80528-1.htm http://www.medindia.net/news/Cell-Phone-Use-by-Kids-may-Boost-Brain-Tumor-Risk-80276-1.htm Kids who use cell phones are 5 times more likely to develop brain tumor than adults, says experts. The potential risk could be a "huge time bomb", according to independent watchdog Powerwatch, which investigates their safety. It wants children banned from using them. "The risk of getting a brain tumour is far increased for children as their cells are still dividing which could cause a tumour to grow. Their skulls are also far thinner and less developed than an adult's, meaning they don't ...]]> http://www.medindia.net/news/Cell-Phone-Use-by-Kids-may-Boost-Brain-Tumor-Risk-80276-1.htm http://www.medindia.net/news/Brain-Tumor-Origin-Discovered-79249-1.htm A group of researchers have discovered the type of cell that is at the origin of brain tumors known as oligodendrogliomas, which are a type of glioma. Glioma is a category that defines the most common type of malignant brain tumor. Investigators found that the tumor originates in and spreads through cells known as glial progenitor cells - cells that are often referred to as "daughter" cells of stem cells. The work comes at a time when many researchers are actively investigating the role ...]]> http://www.medindia.net/news/Brain-Tumor-Origin-Discovered-79249-1.htm http://www.medindia.net/news/FDA-Approves-Brain-Tumor-Drug-Afinitor-76066-1.htm Swiss pharmaceutical company Novartis said Saturday that the US Food and Drug Administration had approved a drug for treating certain benign brain tumors which previously required surgery. Everolimus, marketed as Afinitor, had been shown to be effective in reducing subependymal giant cell astrocytoma (SEGA) associated with tuberous sclerosis, a genetic disorder affecting approximately 25,000 to 40,000 people, mainly children and adolescents, in the United States, it said. Accelerated FDA ...]]> http://www.medindia.net/news/FDA-Approves-Brain-Tumor-Drug-Afinitor-76066-1.htm http://www.medindia.net/news/Study-Questions-If-the-Existing-Standard-of-Care-Supply-Energy-Sources-to-Brain-Tumor-Cells-71367-1.htm Boston College researchers writing in the journal ILancet Oncology/I have speculated that the medical standard of care - comprised of surgery, radiation and chemotherapy - for the most common form of brain cancer triggers a number of biological responses that may actually feed the energy metabolism that supports the disease. The deadly glioblastoma multiforme leaves the average patient a median survival of about a year from diagnosis. Just three percent of patients afflicted with the fast-moving brain cancer survive 36 months....]]> http://www.medindia.net/news/Study-Questions-If-the-Existing-Standard-of-Care-Supply-Energy-Sources-to-Brain-Tumor-Cells-71367-1.htm http://www.medindia.net/news/Optician-Saves-9-year-old-Girl-Whose-Brain-Tumor-was-Missed-Six-Times-by-Docs-66657-1.htm A nine-year-old girl was saved by an optician who managed to spot a plum-sized brain tumor that had been missed by doctors six times. Shanice Bailey was diagnosed with schwannoma, a rare tumor that was pressing her brain stem and had left her paralyzed. The girl was taken to GPs six times between September 2009 and January 2010 only to be told she had asthma. Her mother Laura took her to Specsavers optician Nadia Ahmed when Shanice developed a squint in her eye. The growth was immediately spotted by Ms Ahmed, who advised immediate action....]]> http://www.medindia.net/news/Optician-Saves-9-year-old-Girl-Whose-Brain-Tumor-was-Missed-Six-Times-by-Docs-66657-1.htm http://www.medindia.net/news/Grow-or-go-Switch-Found-for-Brain-Tumor-66375-1.htm The brain tumor switch responsible for the 'grow-or-go' phenomenon has been discovered by American researchers. Cancer cells in brain tumors have to adjust to periods of low energy or die. When energy levels are high, tumor cells grow and multiply but when levels are low, the cells grow less and migrate more. Scientists at the Ohio State University Comprehensive Cancer Center-Arthur G. James Cancer Hospital and Richard J. Solove Research Institute discovered that a molecule called miR-451 ...]]> http://www.medindia.net/news/Grow-or-go-Switch-Found-for-Brain-Tumor-66375-1.htm http://www.medindia.net/news/Early-Detection-of-Brain-Tumor-Enabled-By-Nuclear-Physics-65905-1.htm Time taken to detect brain tumours could soon be significantly reduced thanks to an ongoing pioneering project led by the University of Liverpool with the Nuclear Physics Group and Technology departments at the Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC) at Daresbury Laboratory. Project ProSPECTus is developing the technology for next generation SPECT (single photon emission computed tomography) imaging that is set to revolutionise the medical imaging process, improving future diagnosis of ...]]> http://www.medindia.net/news/Early-Detection-of-Brain-Tumor-Enabled-By-Nuclear-Physics-65905-1.htm http://www.medindia.net/news/Brain-Tumor-Mechanism-Identified-By-Scientists-65473-1.htm A team of researchers has for the first time identified a key mechanism that makes certain cells become tumourous in the brain. The resulting tumours occur most often spontaneously but can also occur in numbers as part of the inherited disease Neurofibromatosis type 2. The tumours are caused by mutations affecting a protein called Merlin, which in turn causes cancers in a range of cell types including Schwann cells. Schwann cells produce the sheaths that surround and insulate neurons. The ...]]> http://www.medindia.net/news/Brain-Tumor-Mechanism-Identified-By-Scientists-65473-1.htm http://www.medindia.net/news/Brain-Tumor-Disappears-in-3-year-old-Girl-Without-Treatment-64715-1.htm In a stunning development, 3-year-old Liberty Rose Finn has fought off a deadly brain tumor on her own without any treatment. The tumor was detected six weeks after Liberty and her twin Destiny were born in 2006. The tumor, which was wrapped around her optic nerve was considered inoperable. Liberty underwent 18 months of grueling chemotherapy without any success. However a scan taken nine months after the chemo was stopped showed nearly no signs of the deadly tumor. "We were speechless and couldn't believe it....]]> http://www.medindia.net/news/Brain-Tumor-Disappears-in-3-year-old-Girl-Without-Treatment-64715-1.htm http://www.medindia.net/news/Biomedical-Researchers-Identify-Protein-That-Could-Treat-Aggressive-Brain-Tumor-62697-1.htm A protein, called TRPC6, could hold the key to treating one of the most common and aggressive brain tumours in adults, say biomedical researchers at the University of Central Florida. Glioblastoma multiforme (GBM), the type of malignant brain tumour that killed the late U.S. Sen. Edward Kennedy, is difficult to treat because it spreads cancerous cells to other parts of the brain very quickly. There is no cure, and treatments have limited success. They consist of surgically ...]]> http://www.medindia.net/news/Biomedical-Researchers-Identify-Protein-That-Could-Treat-Aggressive-Brain-Tumor-62697-1.htm http://www.medindia.net/news/Common-Childhood-Brain-Tumor-Caused-by-Master-Gene-61845-1.htm In the current issue of the journal IScience/I, researchers from Baylor College of Medicine have said that the master gene Math1 is involved in the genesis of the most common childhood brain tumor, medulloblastoma. The finding provides a new treatment target in the deadly disease that most commonly affects children and young adults, said Dr. Huda Zoghbi (A HREF="http:www.bcm.edu/pediatrics/index.cfm?Realm=99992437 (and) This_Template=huda_zoghbi"http:www.bcm.edu/pediatrics/index.cfm?Realm=99992437 (and) This_Template=huda_zoghbi/A, ...]]> http://www.medindia.net/news/Common-Childhood-Brain-Tumor-Caused-by-Master-Gene-61845-1.htm http://www.medindia.net/news/Multiple-Sessions-of-SRS-for-Common-Brain-Tumor-Results-in-Lesser-Swelling-of-the-Brain-60449-1.htm Researchers from the Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center at Georgetown University Hospital say that treating a common brain tumor with multiple sessions of radiation appears to result in less brain swelling than treating the tumor once with a high dose of radiation. Benign brain tumors known as meningiomas are often treated with a single, high dose of radiation using stereotactic radiosurgery (SRS). At Georgetown, SRS is conducted using CyberKnife. A single SRS treatment leads to good tumor ...]]> http://www.medindia.net/news/Multiple-Sessions-of-SRS-for-Common-Brain-Tumor-Results-in-Lesser-Swelling-of-the-Brain-60449-1.htm http://www.medindia.net/news/Childhood-Brain-Tumor-Survivors-Could-Have-Cognitive-Problems-60414-1.htm A new study has found that people who have survived brain tumors in childhood continue to have cognitive problems for the rest of their lives. Such survivors also have lower levels of education, employment and income than their siblings and survivors of other types of cancer. The findings were based on a study coordinated by Dr. Leah Ellenberg, a clinical faculty member of the David Geffen School of Medicine at the University of California, Los Angeles. For the study, researchers sent ...]]> http://www.medindia.net/news/Childhood-Brain-Tumor-Survivors-Could-Have-Cognitive-Problems-60414-1.htm http://www.medindia.net/news/Mobile-Phone-Use-Linked-to-High-Brain-Tumor-Risk-60392-1.htm The long-term use of mobile phones can create up to 1,500 cases of brain tumours per year over the next twenty years, a new British study has said. The team led by radiation expert Dr George Carlo reviewed 23 major studies on the effects of cell phones on users to conclude that people using phones for 10 years or more had 34 percent more chances of developing brain tumours. The report included over 12,000 patients who had developed brain tumours and 25,000 who were tumour-free and ...]]> http://www.medindia.net/news/Mobile-Phone-Use-Linked-to-High-Brain-Tumor-Risk-60392-1.htm http://www.medindia.net/news/Exercise-in-Adolescence-may-Reduce-Brain-Tumor-Risk-59118-1.htm Physical activity during adolescence may help guard against a deadly form of brain tumor in adulthood, says a new study. Although very less is known about the causes of glioma, researchers at the National Cancer Institute have found that this rare but often deadly form of brain cancer may be linked to early life physical activity and height. "Our findings suggest that biological factors related to energy expenditure and growth during childhood may play a role in glioma etiology. This clue ...]]> http://www.medindia.net/news/Exercise-in-Adolescence-may-Reduce-Brain-Tumor-Risk-59118-1.htm http://www.medindia.net/news/Brain-Tumor-Woman-Stuns-Doctors-With-Full-Recovery-59034-1.htm 47-year-old Carole Budding was told by doctors that there was not much they could do for her brain tumors and that she had just about a year of life left. However Carol has now made an amazing recovery and doctors were not able to find any of the four of the malignant growths in her most recent scan. Another tumor has now shrunk to the size of a pinhead and poses no danger to her life. "I was thinking I was going to die in a few weeks, then suddenly I wasn't - I seemed to be getting better, but death was always there....]]> http://www.medindia.net/news/Brain-Tumor-Woman-Stuns-Doctors-With-Full-Recovery-59034-1.htm http://www.medindia.net/news/Chemotherapy-Alone-Is-As-Effective-As-Radiation-After-Brain-Tumor-Surgery-58963-1.htm Initial chemotherapy alone is as effective as initial radiation therapy for patients who have undergone surgery for removal of very malignant brain tumor, reveals a new study. With this treatment, the patients survive on average more than 30 months without a recurrence, said researchers from Heidelberg and Zurich. As the tumors can branch out widely into the surrounding tissue, they cannot be completely removed. The subsequent therapy in the form of combined radiochemotherapy (radiation ...]]> http://www.medindia.net/news/Chemotherapy-Alone-Is-As-Effective-As-Radiation-After-Brain-Tumor-Surgery-58963-1.htm http://www.medindia.net/news/New-Imaging-Analysis-Predicts-Brain-Tumor-Survival-50196-1.htm As early as one week after beginning treatment for brain tumors, a new imaging analysis method was able to predict which patients would live longer, researchers from the University of Michigan Comprehensive Cancer Center have found. The method uses a standard magnetic resonance imaging, or MRI, protocol to monitor changes over time in tumor blood volume within individual voxels of the image, rather than a composite view of average change within the tumor. This parametric response map allowed ...]]> http://www.medindia.net/news/New-Imaging-Analysis-Predicts-Brain-Tumor-Survival-50196-1.htm http://www.medindia.net/news/Researchers-Identify-A-Receptor-That-Might-Be-Appropriate-Target-For-Brain-Tumor-Therapies-49653-1.htm Duke University researchers have identified a receptor on the surface of cells that may give them another avenue of attack against glioblastoma. Glioblastoma is the most common and most deadly type of brain cancer. The neurokinin 1 receptor (NK1R), which may be expressed in all human glioblastoma cells, may prove to be an appropriate target for therapies aimed at treating these brain tumors, according to a study led by researchers in the Duke Department of Anesthesiology and the Preston Robert Tisch Brain Tumor Center at Duke....]]> http://www.medindia.net/news/Researchers-Identify-A-Receptor-That-Might-Be-Appropriate-Target-For-Brain-Tumor-Therapies-49653-1.htm http://www.medindia.net/news/Sports-Legend-Ballesteros-Talks-About-His-Fight-Against-Brain-Tumor-49478-1.htm His face is recognized by millions of golf fans worldwide. He is a winner of five Majors and 87 titles. A legend in sports. Today that same face is a picture of bravery and courage as Spain's Severiano Ballesteros faces his most important challenge, the battle to survive after four harrowing brain tumor operations and relentless chemotherapy sessions. In his first interview since the nightmare began, Seve admitted: "The way I look at it, this is the biggest battle of my life, the sixth Major....]]> http://www.medindia.net/news/Sports-Legend-Ballesteros-Talks-About-His-Fight-Against-Brain-Tumor-49478-1.htm http://www.medindia.net/news/Angiogenesis-Inhibitor-Improves-Brain-Tumor-Survival-by-Reducing-Edema-49357-1.htm The beneficial effects of anti-angiogenesis drugs in the treatment of the deadly brain tumors called glioblastomas appear to result primarily from reduction of edema - the swelling of brain tissue - and not from any direct anti-tumor effect, according to a study from Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) researchers. Their report, to be published in the IJournal of Clinical Oncology/I and receiving early online release, describes how treatment with the experimental drug cediranib reduced edema ...]]> http://www.medindia.net/news/Angiogenesis-Inhibitor-Improves-Brain-Tumor-Survival-by-Reducing-Edema-49357-1.htm http://www.medindia.net/news/Two-Drug-Combo-Significantly-Improves-Brain-Tumor-Treatment-48399-1.htm The combination of two drugs produces a critical improvement in the treatment of certain brain tumours. This has been demonstrated by researchers at Bonn University working in co-operation with German and Swiss colleagues in a current study. They treated 39 patients who had been diagnosed with a so-called gliablastoma. The patients survived on average 23 months; with the standard therapy the mean would have been 14.6 months. Glioblastomas are the most aggressive and the commonest brain tumours. ...]]> http://www.medindia.net/news/Two-Drug-Combo-Significantly-Improves-Brain-Tumor-Treatment-48399-1.htm http://www.medindia.net/news/Standard-Treatment-for-a-Brain-Tumor-May-Help-Spur-Cancers-Return-48335-1.htm A new study suggests that the standard treatment for a common brain tumor increases the aggressiveness of surviving cancer cells, possibly leaving patients more vulnerable to tumor recurrence. The research, published by Cell Press in the March 6th issue of the journal ICell Stem Cell/I, provides valuable insight into the molecular mechanisms that enable cancer stem-like cells to escape cytotoxic treatment and repopulate the tumor. Glioblastoma multiforme is the most prevalent and aggressive ...]]> http://www.medindia.net/news/Standard-Treatment-for-a-Brain-Tumor-May-Help-Spur-Cancers-Return-48335-1.htm http://www.medindia.net/news/Compound-in-BP-Drugs-may-Prevent-Cognition-Loss-Brain-Tumor-Patients-47728-1.htm Researchers from at Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Centre have found that a compound used in blood pressure medication may help prevent cognitive loss after radiation therapy in brain tumor patients. In the study conducted using a rat model, the researchers assumed that that a compound similar to the anti-hypertensive drug losartan can prevent the cognition loss that has been closely-associated with radiation therapy for brain tumor treatment. The researchers hope that the same theory ...]]> http://www.medindia.net/news/Compound-in-BP-Drugs-may-Prevent-Cognition-Loss-Brain-Tumor-Patients-47728-1.htm http://www.medindia.net/news/Molecules-To-Target-Brain-Tumor-Identified-45811-1.htm Researchers at the University of California, Davis have announced that they have found a molecule that targets a highly deadly form of cancer called glioblastoma. Revealing their findings in the European Journal of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging, the researchers say that their work provides hope for effectively treating the most common and aggressive type of primary brain tumour in adults. Glioblastoma is marked by tumours with irregular shapes and poorly defined borders that rapidly ...]]> http://www.medindia.net/news/Molecules-To-Target-Brain-Tumor-Identified-45811-1.htm http://www.medindia.net/news/Teenager-Listens-To-IPod-During-His-Brain-Tumor-Surgery-45325-1.htm Gavin Brooke, a British teenager, listened to his iPod throughout a six-hour operation to have his brain tumor removed. The surgeons had to keep Brooke, 18, awake so they knew they were not damaging his brain. Head neurosurgeon Andrew McEvoy hooked up Brooke's iPod to the operating theatre's sound system. "It was important to keep him awake while I worked in a delicate area. The music kept him relaxed," The Sun quoted McEvoy as saying. "The tumor was in a very difficult place ...]]> http://www.medindia.net/news/Teenager-Listens-To-IPod-During-His-Brain-Tumor-Surgery-45325-1.htm http://www.medindia.net/news/Cambridge-Universitys-Significant-Discovery-to-Help-Cure-Child-Brain-Tumor-43640-1.htm Researchers at Cambridge University claim that a new 'significant discovery' of theirs could help cure deadly brain tumors in children. The researchers have pinpointed a rearrangement of DNA present in around two-thirds of all cases of the most common brain tumors in five to 19-year-olds. The most common type of brain tumor is pilocytic astrocytomas. According to the researchers, the discovery could pave the way for creating better treatments and make diagnosis more accurate. "If we can diagnose ...]]> http://www.medindia.net/news/Cambridge-Universitys-Significant-Discovery-to-Help-Cure-Child-Brain-Tumor-43640-1.htm