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Glioblastoma is the most common type of brain tumor in adults. The disease is 100% fatal and there are no cures, making it the most aggressive type of cancer. Such a poor prognosis has motivated researchers and neurosurgeons to understand the biology of tumors with the goal of creating better…

Ruben Igielko-Herrlich, a veteran film marketing executive, died March 7 in Beverly Hills. He was 62 and had been fighting glioblastoma brain cancer for four years. He co-founded PropagandaGEM, a global entertainment marketing group, in 1991 with his friend and business partner Anders Granath. The company expanded to encompass 10…

Graphical Abstract. Credit: Cell Reports (2023). DOI: 10.1016/j.celrep.2023.112235 A new study of the aggressive brain cancer glioblastoma suggests that two specific cancer cell mutations may work together to help hide tumors from the immune system, offering a possible way to predict whether the tumors would respond to an emerging class…

Glioblastoma is an aggressive type of cancer that can occur in the brain or spinal cord. Patients with glioblastoma receive treatment that frequently leads to the unfortunate side effect of low white blood cell counts, i.e., severe and prolonged lymphopenia. It has been associated with worse survival, but its underlying…

AN IRISH doctor has revealed that flash photography could save a child's life after she shared that taking a picture could uncover a sinister illness. Speaking to the Irish Sun, Dr Niamh Lynch, a consultant in paediatrics, said using flash photography could help to uncover retinoblastoma. 2 Dr Niamh Lynch…

Noah Cowan, a veteran film festival director and indie film specialty distributor, most recently with San Francisco International Film Festival, has died. He was 55. Cowan died Wednesday in Los Angeles after a battle with glioblastoma multiforme that was first diagnosed in December 2021. During a career that began in…

CI-994 induces apoptosis and downregulates MYC expression in MYC-driven medulloblastoma cell lines. (A) Representative FACS analysis of MED8A and D425 MED cells treated either with DMSO (control), 5 or 7.5µM of CI-994 for 48 hours, and bar graphs displaying the mean of n=4 replicates. CI-994 treatment resulted in a dose-dependent…

Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Researchers at Penn Medicine and Intel Corporation led the largest-to-date global machine learning effort to securely aggregate knowledge from brain scans of 6,314 glioblastoma (GBM) patients at 71 sites around the globe and develop a model that can enhance identification and prediction of boundaries in three…

Crystal Smith was just 10 when she died from high-risk neuroblastoma, months after the cancer had returned. Her mum Sabrina Amor said she had planned everything, including where she'd be buried Crystal Smith died just a few months after her brother Kobe was born (Image: Sabrina Amor) A 10-year-old girl…