News tagged with glioblastoma

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Experimental drug shows promise against brain, prostate cancers

An experimental drug currently being tested against breast and lung cancer shows promise in fighting the brain cancer glioblastoma and prostate cancer, researchers at UT Southwestern Medical Center have found in two preclinical ...

Medicine & Health / Cancer

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Variations in 5 genes raise risk for most common brain tumors

Common genetic variations spread across five genes raise a person's risk of developing the most frequent type of brain tumor, an international research team reports online in Nature Genetics.

Medicine & Health / Genetics

created Jul 05, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

Researchers develop novel glioblastoma mouse model

Researchers at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies have developed a versatile mouse model of glioblastoma—the most common and deadly brain cancer in humans—that closely resembles the development and progression of human ...

Medicine & Health / Medical research

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Nanoparticles home in on brain tumors, boost accuracy of surgical removal

Like special-forces troops laser-tagging targets for a bomber pilot, tiny particles that can be imaged three different ways at once have enabled Stanford University School of Medicine scientists to remove brain tumors from ...

Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine

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Just add water and treat brain cancer

Researchers at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine have developed a technique that delivers gene therapy into human brain cancer cells using nanoparticles that can be freeze-dried and stored for up to three months ...

Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine

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Targeted particle fools brain's guardian to reach tumors

A targeted delivery combination selectively crosses the tight barrier that protects the brain from the bloodstream to home in on and bind to brain tumors, a research team led by scientists from The University of Texas MD ...

Medicine & Health / Cancer

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Irradiating stem cell niche doubles survival in brain cancer patients

Patients with deadly glioblastomas who received high doses of radiation that hit a portion of the brain that harbors neural stem cells had double the progression-free survival time as patients who had lower doses or no radiation ...

Medicine & Health / Cancer

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Tiny Particles May Help Surgeons By Marking Brain Tumors

(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers have developed a way to enhance how brain tumors appear in MRI scans and during surgery, making the tumors easier for surgeons to identify and remove.

Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine

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Cancer stem cells suppress immune response against brain tumor

Cancer-initiating cells that launch glioblastoma multiforme, the most lethal type of brain tumor, also suppress an immune system attack on the disease, scientists from The University of Texas M. D. Anderson ...

Medicine & Health / Cancer

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Researchers find possible way to block the spread of deadly brain tumors

Researchers at the Translational Genomics Research Institute (TGen) may have found a way to stop the often-rapid spread of deadly brain tumors.

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Apr 17, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 0

Reversing effects of altered enzyme may fight brain tumor growth

An international team of scientists from the Moores Cancer Center at the University of California, San Diego, the University of North Carolina and several institutions in China have explained how a gene alteration can lead ...

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Apr 14, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Scientists identify chemical compound that may stop deadly brain tumors

Researchers at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Medicine have identified a compound that could be modified to treat one of the most deadly types of cancer, and discovered how a particular gene mutation ...

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Apr 09, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

'Oncometabolite' linked with widespread alterations in gene expression

A new study finds that a metabolite commonly elevated in brain cancer and leukemia may promote tumorigenesis by altering the expression of a large number of genes. New research, published by Cell Press in ...

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Jan 18, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Treating deadly brain tumors by combining drugs

Lab studies show that combining drugs that target a variety of developmental cell signaling pathways may do a better job of killing deadly brain tumors than single drugs that target one pathway at a time, according to a new ...

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Jan 12, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Double-therapy approach effectively inhibited brain cancer recurrence

Researchers from the University of Massachusetts Medical School have identified a novel approach of combining chemotherapy with a targeted therapy to decrease the recurrence of glioblastoma multiforme, the most common and ...

Medicine & Health / Cancer

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