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An 18-year-old Cape Town teenager has been diagnosed with pineoblastoma, a rare brain tumour. His mom Vanessa Nel is on a mission to nurture her son back to health, despite surgeons saying the outcome is inevitable. Local non-profitable charity Arms of Mercy has come to the family’s aid to assist where possible."To…

Orla Kearney was diagnosed with retinoblastoma, a cancer of the eye, after dad Thomas Kearney and mum Morgan Gillan noticed she had a slight squint and decided to get it checked When Orla Kearney was diagnosed with cancer in June aged just nine months, her family were devastatedA baby girl…

Neuroblastoma, a childhood cancer that develops from neural cells on the adrenal glands, accounts for 15% of childhood cancer deaths. Almost half of children with high-risk neuroblastoma harbor extra copies of the gene MYCN (MYCN amplified), the primary driver of neuroblastoma and its resistance to therapy. “Treating neuroblastoma by directly…

Nicole Hazen, the wife of Arizona Diamondbacks general manager Mike Hazen, has died from complications due to glioblastoma, a form of brain cancer. She was 45. She was diagnosed with cancer more than two years ago. The family has four sons, Charlie, John, Teddy and Sam. The team sent a…

Brain cancer may be rare, but glioblastoma (also known as glioblastoma multiforme or GBM) accounts for around 15 percent of brain tumors. The aggressive cancer is well known within the medical field due to being one of the most dangerous cancers around. Now, scientists may better understand why GBM is…

Glioblastoma (histology slide). Credit: Wikipedia/CC BY-SA 3.0 All of the newly diagnosed glioblastoma multiforme patients enrolled in a Phase 1 clinical trial at the University of Alabama at Birmingham have exceeded both their median and expected progression-free survivals. Two patients, to date, have exceeded their expected overall survival. Glioblastoma multiforme…

Enrollment in clinical trials failed to overcome factors leading to worse survival for Hispanic children with high-risk neuroblastoma, a large retrospective analysis showed. The Hispanic subgroup had a 5-year overall survival (OS) rate of 47% as compared with over 60% for whites and non-Hispanic Blacks. A similar disparity was seen…

Kidscan are working together with North West Cancer Research to jointly fund a three-year PhD grant for a scientist working in the area of childhood cancer whose research focuses on Medulloblastoma, or who can illustrate how their work could also be relevant to Medulloblastoma. Alastair Richards, CEO of North West…

This Brain Cancer Awareness Month (May), a handful of the brightest and best minds in brain cancer research will meet all around the US to discuss advances in treatment protocols for glioblastoma (GBM) Press Release - May 16, 2022 06:00 EDT LOS ANGELES, May 16, 2022 (Newswire.com) - This Brain…

Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Findings from a seven-year research project suggests that there could be a new approach to treating one of the most common and devasting forms of brain cancer in adults—Glioblastoma Multiforme (GBM). In a peer-reviewed study published by BMC Cancer, scientists from the University of Surrey show…