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Some Brain Tumors Respond To Immunotherapy

Some Brain Tumors Respond To Immunotherapy

The reason behind why some glioblastomas, the most common type of brain cancer, respond to immunotherapy was investigated by a group of researchers. The results of the study could help in th...

Breakthrough in Drug Development & Personalized Medicine for Brain Tumor

Breakthrough in Drug Development & Personalized Medicine for Brain Tumor

A breakthrough for drug development for the brain tumor and personalized medicine was published in Nature Scientific Reports . 4,000 patients are diagnosed with brain tumors every year with...

New Treatment Shrinks Deadly Pediatric Brain Tumors

New Treatment Shrinks Deadly Pediatric Brain Tumors

New targeted therapy that blocks LSD1 protein was able to shrink tumors in mice with a form of pediatric brain cancer known as medulloblastoma, said scientists at Sanford Burnham Prebys Medi...

Solid Stress from Brain Tumors Causes Neurologic Dysfunction

Solid Stress from Brain Tumors Causes Neurologic Dysfunction

The solid stress impacts the tissue surrounding brain tumors and found to contribute to neurological dysfunction and neuronal cell death, demonstrated a Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH)-...

Few Brain Tumors Respond to Immunotherapy: New Study

Few Brain Tumors Respond to Immunotherapy: New Study

Brain tumors have become resistant to immunotherapy. But, a slow-growing brain tumor emerging in patients with neurofibromatosis type 1 (NF1) is susceptible to immunotherapy, which gives the...

Convection Enhanced Delivery can Halt the Spread of Brain Cancer

Convection Enhanced Delivery can Halt the Spread of Brain Cancer

Spread of cancer cells in glioblastoma to other body parts due to fast moving, high pressure interstitial fluid could be prevented by convection-enhanced delivery using a new drug compound c...

Drink That Makes Deadly Brain Cancer Cells Glow Helps Surgeons

Drink That Makes Deadly Brain Cancer Cells Glow Helps Surgeons

A compound present in a drink that makes tumor cells glow had helped surgeons in Briton to safely identify and remove the tumor. The research was undertaken in patients who were suspected ...

New Hope to Brain Tumor Patients

New Hope to Brain Tumor Patients

A MET kinase inhibitor molecule named PLB-1001 identified is able to penetrate the blood-brain barrier, key treatment characteristic, said researchers. For example, if Hong Kong's ba...

New Personalized Approach for Brain Cancer Treatment Identified

New Personalized Approach for Brain Cancer Treatment Identified

Childhood Brain cancer treatment: a chromosome signature can now tell the doctors if the patient is at a low risk say has the survival rate of 100% or high risk - has the survival rate less ...

Regulator of Brain Tumor Migration Discovered

Regulator of Brain Tumor Migration Discovered

TEAD1, a specific protein discovered by scientists acts as an important regulator of tumor migration in glioblastoma, the most common brain tumor in adults. The research was conducted at the...

Zika Vaccine Offers New Hope in Fight Against Brain Cancer

Zika Vaccine Offers New Hope in Fight Against Brain Cancer

Zika virus vaccine offers new hope in the fight against brain cancer, reports a new study. The findings of the study are published in the journal MBio . Researchers at The University o...

Potential Strategy in Fight Against Brain Cancer Discovered

Potential Strategy in Fight Against Brain Cancer Discovered

A gene involved in the body's circadian rhythms was found to be the potential target for therapies to help glioblastoma patients, state Virginia Tech Carilion Research Institute scientists. ...

New Method to Fight Brain Tumor

New Method to Fight Brain Tumor

A new way has been developed by researchers in which ultrasound and its contrast agent -- consisting of tiny bubbles -- can be paired with intranasal administration, to direct a drug to the ...

Bomb Squad can Help Protect Against Brain Tumors

Bomb Squad can Help Protect Against Brain Tumors

The discovery of how a protein complex safeguards against certain brain tumors could inform future treatment strategies. Their study in fruit flies, published in the journal eLife, co...

Radiation in Children with Brain Tumor Limits Ability to Recall Recent Events

Radiation in Children with Brain Tumor Limits Ability to Recall Recent Events

Children undergoing radiation therapy for different types of brain tumors, find it difficult to recall specific recent events. The difference before and after the therapy is clearly visible ...

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