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Metabolic molecule drives growth of aggressive brain cancer

A new study has identified an abnormal metabolic pathway that drives cancer-cell growth in a particular subtype of glioblastoma, the most common and lethal form of brain cancer. The finding could lead to new therapies for a subset of patients with glioblastoma.

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Pediatric PET Imaging Of Gliomas Gets A Boost With An Easier-To-Manufacture Imaging Agent

A relatively new weapon in the fight against childhood brain cancer has emerged that improves upon standard magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) by providing information about tumor metabolism and extent of cancer in children diagnosed with glioma, a growth caused by the abnormal division of glial cells in the brain, say researchers at the Society of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular …

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Experimental vaccine shows promise against TB meningitis

Researchers working with animals has developed a vaccine that prevents the virulent TB bacterium from invading the brain and causing the highly lethal condition TB meningitis, a disease that disproportionately occurs in TB-infected children and in adults with compromised immune system.

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Master Regulator Discovered In Cancer Metastasis

The predominant cause of death in cancer patients is metastasis, the formation of secondary tumors in other organs like the brain, liver, and lungs. Cancer cells detach from the original primary tumor and reach a single cell or group of cells in another organ. The cells of the body normally remain in place through adhering to an extracellular substance…

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Master Regulator Discovered In Cancer Metastasis

The predominant cause of death in cancer patients is metastasis, the formation of secondary tumors in other organs like the brain, liver, and lungs. Cancer cells detach from the original primary tumor and reach a single cell or group of cells in another organ. The cells of the body normally remain in place through adhering to an extracellular substance…

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Gene variant may provide novel therapy for several cancer types

A novel gene variant found in human and animal tissue may be a promising treatment for cancer, including breast and brain cancer.

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Stimulating The Immune System To Fight Brain Tumors

Research at Lund University in Sweden gives hope that one of the most serious types of brain tumor, glioblastoma multiforme, could be fought by the patients’ own immune system. The tumors are difficult to remove with surgery because the tumor cells grow into the surrounding healthy brain tissue…

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Oncogene mutation hijacks splicing process to promote growth and survival

Scientists have found that a singular gene mutation helps brain cancer cells to not just survive, but grow tumors rapidly by altering the splicing of genes that control cellular metabolism.

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Immune system to fight brain tumors

Research gives hope that one of the most serious types of brain tumor, glioblastoma multiforme, could be fought by the patients’ own immune system. The tumors are difficult to remove with surgery because the tumor cells grow into the surrounding healthy brain tissue. A patient with the disease therefore does not usually survive much longer than a year after the discovery of the tumor.

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Mum has weeks to live after being ‘refused brain scans’

A woman given just weeks to live after being diagnosed with four brain tumours has hit out over the 18 months it took to get a scan.

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