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Scanning cancer, up close & personal: A revolution is underway in cancer diagnosisA gene-based test called next-generation sequencing can identify precise mutations, which can then be treated with targeted therapies. Sinc...
Doctor dismissed her blackout as fear of spiders, now she has six months to live after chilling diagnosisFormer England footballercs 2015 blackout was misdiagnosed as arachnophobia, but scans later revealed a grade four brain tumour. After surg...
Celebrity Chef John Lawson paralyzed by rare brain tumor, unable to make a cup of teaA prominent chef, who had previously collaborated with Gordon Ramsay and the Beckhams, has revealed his devastating experience of being dia...
AI tool shows promise for treating brain cancer, shows studyThe tool — called the Cryosection Histopathology Assessment and Review Machine, or CHARM — studies images to quickly pick out the genetic p...
Presence of extracellular vesicles in urine could indicate brain tumour: StudyThis breakthrough can avoid the need for invasive tests and enable early detection.
New study explores why brain cancer returnsThe team also found that lower-grade tumours often develop a new mutation that allows the cells to start dividing more rapidly, potentially...
World Brain Tumour Day: Compounds found in cured meats & cosmetics, exposure to chemicals can be fatalIn general, men are more likely to develop a brain tumour.
Having more brain cells isn't a boon: It can increase risk of rare cancerThe chance of survival in people suffering from rare aggressive brain cancer is relatively low.
- Brain tumours may occur in children with common genetic syndrome
New York, Aug 18 (IANS) Parents, please take note. The frequency of brain tumours has been underestimated in children with the common genet...
Metastatic cancer: 4 treatment options that patients can considerTreatments, including radiation & immunotherapy, have proven to be effective in patients with metastatic solid cancers.
- Childhood brain tumour survivor's high body fat ups stroke risk
Toronto, March 25 (IANS) Survivors of childhood brain tumours have more body fat, increasing their risk of stroke, heart disease, type 2 di...
Industry-funded research plays down risk from mobiles: StudyAIIMS research shows studies with higher quality score show a trend towards harm, while lower quality score studies show a trend towards pr...
A university degree may increase the risk of developing a brain tumourMen with university level education, lasting at least three years, were 19 per cent more likely to develop a glioma - a type of cancerous t...
Next-generation anticancer vaccines may beat brain cancerA next-generation cell-based immunotherapy may offer new hope in the fight against the most aggressive form of brain cancer.
Indian scientist Pallavi Tiwari develops software for predicting survival of cancer patientsTiwari said that despite several advances in drug discovery and clinical trials for cancer treatment, all GBM patients still follow the sam...
Indian-American discovers stem cells to kill brain cancerHSCI scientists led by Dr Khalid Shah, who hails from Kashmir, experimented on mice and used genetically engineered stem cells that release...
Stem cells can help kill brain tumoursIn a breakthrough, Harvard scientists have discovered that stem cells loaded with the herpes virus can be used to specifically target and k...
New immunotherapy for brain cancer developed by researchers:ReportTreatment of brain tumours is particularly challenging because regulatory T-cells accumulate in brain tumours and suppress an immune attack.
- No link between mobiles and brain cancer, reports a new study
Extensive research has also not established any biological mechanism by which radio frequency fields from mobile phones could cause cancer.
An utterly sane madnessFindings published in the latest issue of Neurone indicate that damage to the back part of the brain induces people to become more aware of...