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Brain Tumor

Brain tumors are the abnormal growth of brain cells that may be benign or metastatic. Brain tumors account for about 2.4% of all the tumor diagnoses and are most challenging due to their critically delicate location.

How to Prevent Memory Loss in Kids With Brain Tumors During Radiotherapy

How to Prevent Memory Loss in Kids With Brain Tumors During Radiotherapy

Pencil beam scanning (PBS), a form of proton beam radiotherapy offers the best chance to preserve memory, reasoning skills and other higher brain functions while treating brain tumors in kids with radiation.

New Insights into Pediatric Brain Tumor

New Insights into Pediatric Brain Tumor

The newly available brain cancer model allows the scientists to test compounds that could stop or slow the growth of the tumor.

Radiation To Enhance Delivery of Nanoparticles to Brain Tumors

Radiation To Enhance Delivery of Nanoparticles to Brain Tumors

Radiation primes brain tumors for increased uptake of nanotherapeutics, allowing to develop a targeted nanoparticle therapy against the most aggressive type of brain tumor.

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New Study Shows How People Respond to Brain Tumor Symptoms

New Study Shows How People Respond to Brain Tumor Symptoms

Patients often didn't consider seeking help for many of the brain tumor symptoms as they were mild, infrequent, intermittent, and didn't interfere with what they needed to do.

New Drug Combination to Treat Common Brain Tumor in Children

New Drug Combination to Treat Common Brain Tumor in Children

Combination of Everolimus and carboplatin slow down the growth of the commonest brain tumor in children named glioma.

Radiation Triples Survival Chances In Pediatric Brain Tumor Patients After Surgery

Radiation Triples Survival Chances In Pediatric Brain Tumor Patients After Surgery

Survival chances triple when radiation is given after surgery in case of ependymoma, a pediatric brain tumor, finds a new study.

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Promising Treatment Strategy can Fight Deadly Brain Tumor in Children

Promising Treatment Strategy can Fight Deadly Brain Tumor in Children

ACVR1, an inhibitor of an enzyme slows tumor growth and prolongs survival in an animal model of diffuse intrinsic pontine glioma (DIPG), a life-threatening brain tumor in kids.

Some Brain Tumors Respond To Immunotherapy

Some Brain Tumors Respond To Immunotherapy

Researchers have learned why some glioblastomas respond to immunotherapy that could help identify patients who are most likely to benefit from treatment with immunotherapy drugs.

Breakthrough in Drug Development & Personalized Medicine for Brain Tumor

Breakthrough in Drug Development & Personalized Medicine for Brain Tumor

New drugs could be developed for glioblastoma basing on Human induced pluripotent stem cell (IPSC) derived 3D organoid model.

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New Treatment Shrinks Deadly Pediatric Brain Tumors

New Treatment Shrinks Deadly Pediatric Brain Tumors

LSD1 inhibitors are currently under evaluation in clinical trials for other cancers, which could speed their potential path to children with medulloblastoma (brain tumor).

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