News tagged with malignant gliomas
New function of gene in promoting cancer found
Researchers at Virginia Commonwealth University have discovered that a gene well known for its involvement in tumor cell development, growth and metastasis also protects cancer cells from being destroyed by chemotherapy. ...
Nov 22, 2010 |
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Breaching the blood-brain barrier to create powerful new tools for fighting cancer
One of the human body's most powerful defensive tools, the blood-brain barrier is a chemical labyrinth that prevents toxins and viruses in the bloodstream from reaching the brain. This foolproof security system, however, ...
Medicine & Health / Medical research
Jul 27, 2010 |
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Caregivers of brain cancer patients play a key role
Despite grim prognoses and aggressive treatments, cancer patients suffering from malignant gliomas -- primary brain tumors -- often rate their quality of life more optimistically than their caregivers do, according to a new ...
May 20, 2010 |
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Kennedy's cancer puts focus on quality of life
(AP) -- He lived 15 months with an incurable brain tumor, a little longer than usual for a patient in his late 70s. Perhaps equally important is that Sen. Edward M. Kennedy lived those months well - able to work almost to ...
Aug 26, 2009 |
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Computer model predicts brain tumor growth and evolution
Researchers from Brown University and other institutions have developed a computational computer model of how brain tumors grow and evolve.
May 18, 2009 |
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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 ...
Apr 09, 2009 |
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Avastin effective at delaying brain tumor progression in recurrent disease
The use of Avastin alone to treat a subgroup of recurrent Grade 3 brain tumors showed it was safe and effective at delaying tumor progression, according to a retrospective study of 22 patients conducted by a researcher at ...
Apr 06, 2009 |
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Fluorescent cancer cells to guide brain surgeons
Gliomas are malignant brain tumors that arise from glial (supporting) cells of the brain. Gliomas are often resistant to chemotherapy. These tumors grow fine extensions that infiltrate normal brain tissue and, in addition, ...
Apr 03, 2009 |
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