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There are two main types of brain cancer. Primary brain cancer starts in the brain. Metastatic brain cancer starts somewhere else in the body and moves to the brain. Brain tumors can be benign, with no cancer cells, or malignant, with cancer cells that grow quickly. Also called glioma, meningioma.

Scientists develop new way to deliver molecules that target specific genes within cells

A group of researchers from University of Toronto Engineering and SickKids Hospital have developed a new way to deliver molecules that target specific genes within cells.

4 May 2020

Cannabidiol could be a useful therapy for difficult-to-treat brain cancer

Findings from a new study examining human and canine brain cancer cells suggest that cannabidiol could be a useful therapy for a difficult-to-treat brain cancer. Cannabidiol, or CBD, is a non-psychoactive chemical compound derived from marijuana.

27 Apr 2020

Patients with aggressive form of skin cancer can benefit from new type of immunotherapy

In what is believed to be a first-of-its-kind study to evaluate the safety of a type of immunotherapy before surgery in patients with an aggressive form of skin cancer, researchers report that the treatment eliminated pathologic evidence of cancer in nearly half of the study participants undergoing surgery.

27 Apr 2020

Combination therapy boosts the immune system's appetite for cancer

A combination of immunotherapy agents that encourages some immune cells to eat cancer cells and alert others to attack tumors put mice with a deadly type of brain cancer called glioblastoma into long-term remission, a new study led by UT Southwestern scientists suggests.

24 Apr 2020

AI may help eliminate use of biopsy for brain cancer patients

Brain cancer patients in the coming years may not need to go under the knife to help doctors determine the best treatment for their tumors.

21 Apr 2020

New drug preserves cognitive function in mice after brain irradiation

A study by researchers at the UCLA Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center has identified a possible new drug that could help prevent cognitive decline in people who undergo radiation therapy for brain tumors.

15 Apr 2020

Real-time imaging reveals how infiltrating glioma cells alter brain function, blood flow

The first sign of trouble for a patient with a growing brain tumor is often a seizure. Such seizures have long been considered a side effect of the tumor.

15 Apr 2020

Insights into diagnosis and treatment of rare pediatric brain cancer

Ependymoma is a rare form of brain cancer that implicates children and is often tricky to diagnose.

26 Mar 2020

Despite failures, chemotherapy still promising against fatal pediatric brain cancer

The pediatric brain cancer known as diffuse intrinsic pontine glioma is almost uniformly fatal. In part, this is due to where and how it grows, forming as a diffuse net of cells in a part of the brainstem called the pons, which controls essential functions like breathing and swallowing.

25 Mar 2020

Lung cancer medication may have benefits for patients with metastatic brain cancers

A medication commonly used to treat non-small cell lung cancer that has spread, or metastasized, may have benefits for patients with metastatic brain cancers, suggests a new review and analysis led by researchers at St. Michael's Hospital of Unity Health Toronto and Harvard Medical School.

25 Mar 2020

'Natural killer' cells could help stop progression of Parkinson's disease

Researchers at the University of Georgia's Regenerative Bioscience Center and their colleagues have found that "natural killer" white blood cells could guard against the cascade of cellular changes that lead to Parkinson's disease and help stop its progression.

16 Mar 2020

Post-diagnosis disparities drive worse outcomes for Black and Hispanic children with brain cancer

Cancer researchers have known for years that Black and Hispanic patients have worse outcomes than their non-Hispanic White peers.

12 Mar 2020

A seismic view of the brain

A new study published in the journal Digital Medicine in March 2020 reports a prototype or pilot study that could make it easier to develop much more accurate imaging technology for the human brain, far more superior to any existing technology such as CT, MRI, and PET scanning.

8 Mar 2020

Seismic imaging has potential to deliver high-fidelity images of the human brain

The Imperial College London and UCL researchers say their proof-of-concept study, published today in npj Digital Medicine, paves the way for the development of high-fidelity clinical imaging of the human brain that could be superior to existing technology.

6 Mar 2020

New type of adoptive cell therapy could target prostate and pancreatic cancers in humans

In experiments with mice, researchers at the Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center say they have slowed the growth of transplanted human prostate and pancreatic cancer cells by introducing bone marrow cells with a specific gene deletion to induce a novel immune response.

5 Mar 2020

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Scientists develop new way to deliver molecules that target specific genes within cells

Cannabidiol could be a useful therapy for difficult-to-treat brain cancer

Patients with aggressive form of skin cancer can benefit from new type of immunotherapy

Combination therapy boosts the immune system's appetite for cancer

AI may help eliminate use of biopsy for brain cancer patients

New drug preserves cognitive function in mice after brain irradiation

Real-time imaging reveals how infiltrating glioma cells alter brain function, blood flow

Insights into diagnosis and treatment of rare pediatric brain cancer

Despite failures, chemotherapy still promising against fatal pediatric brain cancer

Lung cancer medication may have benefits for patients with metastatic brain cancers

'Natural killer' cells could help stop progression of Parkinson's disease

Post-diagnosis disparities drive worse outcomes for Black and Hispanic children with brain cancer

A seismic view of the brain

Seismic imaging has potential to deliver high-fidelity images of the human brain

New type of adoptive cell therapy could target prostate and pancreatic cancers in humans

Brain imaging may help predict when liquid biopsy will benefit individual glioblastoma patients

Scientists developing a combined vaccine to fight most malignant brain tumor

Simple blood test could be used by GPs to aid in earlier brain tumor diagnosis

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