Children with incurable brain tumours could benefit from potentially life-extending treatment if genetic testing was used to personalise therapy as it is in many adults, major new research reports.
May 14, 2018
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Mobile phones hit headlines this morning because a press release linked an increase in brain tumour cases in England with the devices.
May 4, 2018
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Our brains are home to a staggering 86 billion or so cells that are carefully woven into the structure that lets us think, feel and live.
May 2, 2018
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In a study published in Nature Communications, a team led IRCM Hematopoiesis and Cancer Research Unit director Tarik Möröy reveals how the GFI1 protein sometimes helps leukemia and lymphoma cancer cells evade therapy. This ...
Apr 12, 2018
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Even as cancer treatment improves and survival rates go up, so too does the number of people afflicted with the deadly disease, experts said ahead of World Cancer Day.
Feb 2, 2018
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Cancer survival is increasing across the world but large gaps endure between nations, while some cancers remain hard to treat everywhere, according to a major review released Wednesday.
Jan 31, 2018
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A virus injected directly into the bloodstream could be used to treat people with aggressive brain tumours, a major new study reports.
Jan 3, 2018
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Applying low frequency electric fields to the scalp of people with an aggressive type of brain tumour improves survival, according to a clinical trial.
Dec 20, 2017
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A simple, non-invasive procedure that can indicate how long patients with cancer that has spread to the brain might survive and whether they are likely to respond to immunotherapy has been developed by researchers in Liverpool.
Dec 12, 2017
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Researchers have explored the analysis of mutations in cerebrospinal fluid of lung cancer patients with brain metastases in a study presented at the ESMO Asia 2017 Congress. Tumour tissue from brain metastasis is difficult ...
Nov 17, 2017
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