Papillary craniopharyngiomas (PCPs) are a rare type of brain tumor that cause substantial morbidity for patients. While surgery and radiation are often used to treat PCPs, incomplete removal of the tumor and toxicity from ...
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Scientists have designed an AI tool that can rapidly decode a brain tumor's DNA to determine its molecular identity during surgery—critical information that under the current approach can take a few days and up to a few ...
Jul 7, 2023
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The median length of survival after diagnosis of glioblastoma is 14 months, but some of these brain tumors are more aggressive and resistant to treatment than others, and a new study from Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center ...
Jul 3, 2023
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Glioblastoma is the most aggressive form of brain cancer. Despite decades of major efforts and clinical trials, the tumor's survival rate has remained stagnant.
Jun 28, 2023
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Glioblastoma (GBM) is the most aggressive and lethal form of brain tumor. Despite treatment, GBM recurrence is inevitable and tends to occur outside surgical margins or in locations remote to the primary tumor, highlighting ...
Jun 28, 2023
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Measuring human brain activity down to the cellular level—until now, this has been possible only to a limited extent. With a new approach developed by researchers at the Technical University of Munich (TUM), it will now ...
Jun 27, 2023
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Folate-based radiopharmaceuticals can be used in positron emission tomography (PET) imaging to detect folate receptors in brain tumors. The discovery of folate receptors and their exploitation potential with respect to brain ...
Jun 15, 2023
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Cancer that spreads to the brain from another part of the body such as lung or breast is called a metastatic brain tumor. As metastatic brain tumors grow, they can cause symptoms such as headaches, seizures and weakness or ...
Jun 8, 2023
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Researchers have long known that brain tumors, specifically a type of tumor called a glioma, can affect a person's cognitive and physical function. Patients with glioblastoma, the most fatal type of brain tumor in adults, ...
Jun 7, 2023
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Tumors are composed of rapidly multiplying cancer cells. Understanding which biochemical processes fuel their relentless growth can provide hints at therapeutic targets.
Jun 1, 2023
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