Neuroscience
Molecular imbalance linked to brain tumour seizures
Researchers in France may have discovered why some patients with a type of brain tumour have epileptic seizures.
Jul 14, 2014
0
0
Page 16 - News tagged with brain tumours
Oncology & Cancer
Overlooked DNA shuffling drives deadly paediatric brain tumour
One of the deadliest forms of paediatric brain tumour, Group 3 medulloblastoma, is linked to a variety of large-scale DNA rearrangements which all have the same overall effect on specific genes located on different chromosomes. ...
Jun 23, 2014
1
0
Oncology & Cancer
Genetic flaw may hold key to deadly childhood brain tumour
Scientists may have discovered a new way to treat a type of childhood brain tumour that has proved incurable up until now, according to a study published in Nature Genetics today.
Apr 7, 2014
0
0
Neuroscience
Areas of the brain process read and heard language differently
The brain processes read and heard language differently. This is the key and new finding of a study at the University Department of Radiology and Nuclear Medicine at the MedUni Vienna, unveiled on the eve of the European ...
Mar 10, 2014
0
1
Oncology & Cancer
The only top 10 cancer where survival rates are falling
Of the top 10 cancers in the UK, bladder cancer is only one where survival rates have been shown to be getting worse. New figures published this month in the Journal of Clinical Urology confirm in a study of cases of bladder ...
Feb 25, 2014
0
0
Oncology & Cancer
Stopping tumors in their path
Glioblastoma (GBM) is the most common and deadly form of primary malignant brain cancer accounting for approximately 15% of all brain tumours and occurring mostly in adults between the ages of 45 and 70. The aggressive recurrent ...
Jan 8, 2014
0
0
Surgery
'Octopus tentacles' make future operations more flexible
The rigidity of current surgical instruments means it is sometimes only possible to remove part of a brain tumour. Limitations such as these led Professor Paul Breedveld to develop a fundamentally new class of flexible surgical ...
Dec 19, 2013
0
0
Surgery
Brainy biomechanics for safer brain surgery
(Medical Xpress)—Patients undergoing brain surgery are likely to benefit from a new technique that can help neurosurgeons predict how the brain will move during operations.
Dec 18, 2013
0
1
Genetics
Groundbreaking discovery in deadly childhood cancer
A new study by Canadian researchers may pave the way for more effective treatment of an aggressive and deadly type of brain tumour, known as ETMR/ETANTR. The tumour, which is seen only in children under four, is almost always ...
Dec 11, 2013
0
0
Neuroscience
Blunting brain tumor growth with immune activation
Researchers at the University of Calgary's Hotchkiss Brain Institute (HBI) have made a discovery that could lead to better treatment for patients suffering from brain cancer.
Dec 8, 2013
0
1
