As cancers grow and potentially spread to new parts of the body, they often shed cells and DNA into the blood stream. DNA can be analyzed for both the amount of DNA present and whether any potential mutations exist that may ...
Nov 29, 2022
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University of Saskatchewan (USask) researchers have developed a new method of killing brain cancer cells while preserving the delicate tissue around it. The technique also has a remarkable side-benefit: making chemotherapy ...
Nov 25, 2022
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November is National Epilepsy Awareness Month, which makes this a good time to learn about the causes of and risk factors for epilepsy.
Nov 21, 2022
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Using a special type of MRI, researchers have uncovered brain changes in patients up to six months after they recovered from COVID-19, according to a study being presented next week at the annual meeting of the Radiological ...
Nov 21, 2022
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Researchers have demonstrated in mice a new approach for delivering medication across the blood-brain barrier to treat tumors that cause aggressive, lethal brain cancer.
Nov 17, 2022
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Can surgeons quantify the risk of aphasia when removing a brain tumor? To find out, researchers at Klinikum rechts der Isar of the Technical University of Munich (TUM) are analyzing the brain as a network. In a current study ...
Nov 16, 2022
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Brain tumors scare most people, but there are still reasons to be hopeful if you learn you have an abnormal growth in your brain—even if it's cancer, says Sean Grimm, MD, chief of the Section of Medical Neuro-Oncology at ...
Nov 15, 2022
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A significant obstacle to treating brain cancer is not the cancer, but the brain itself.
Nov 11, 2022
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An enzyme that drives the growth of an often-lethal childhood brain cancer may hold the key to a future treatment, says a McMaster University-led study.
Nov 10, 2022
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Two novel and orally administered drugs can not only block the growth, but also shrink the size, of a tumor type found in the nervous system, new research has shown.
Nov 8, 2022
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