Blastoma

Tom Parker has passed away from a brain tumour aged 33, leaving behind his wife Kelsey, 32, and their two children: Aurelia, two, and Bodhi, one. Tom was first diagnosed with a brain tumour in 2020, where he was told that in was inoperable. With this in mind, he warned…

Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain A new study by researchers at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) shows that linking a tumor-killing prodrug to a macromolecular carrier of the Poloxamer family improves retention of the drug in treatment-resistant neuroblastoma tumors, leading to rapid tumor regression and lasting therapeutic responses in several preclinical…

A mum and dad are urging other parents to look out for the tell-tale signs of eye cancer after their 14-month-old son lost his eye through retinoblastoma, a rare eye cancer that typically affects children under the age of six.   Dad Tom Pughe-Morgan, from Brighton, spotted an unusual white glow in his then eight-month-old son Elijah’s eye – a…

Dapo Afolayan dedicated a 'special' Bolton Wanderers goal celebration against Sunderland to the memory of a young West Ham United fan who passed away from a rare childhood cancer. Isla Caton sadly passed away on Tuesday (January 25) with high-risk neuroblastoma which she was first diagnosed with aged just two-years-old…

The study was published as a preprint on researchsquare.com and has not yet been peer reviewed. Key Takeaway The response of IDH-wild type recurrent glioblastoma to vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) inhibitors can be predicted by the pretreatment MRI contrast enhancing pattern. With predominantly contrast enhancing lesions, bevacizumab prolongs progression-free…

The Mail & Guardian spoke to one family who lost their four-year-old daughter to aggressive and agonisingly painful neuroblastoma cancer three years ago. A middle-class white family without medical aid, their experience and “rescue” by an NGO, highlights the hundreds of painful and undignified child deaths at home or in…

Inhaled CBD shrinks the size of the highly aggressive, lethal brain tumor glioblastoma in an animal model by reducing the essential support of its microenvironment, researchers report. "We saw a significant reduction in the size of the tumor and its microenvironment was different," Dr. Babak Baban, immunologist and associate dean…

Neuroblastoma UK, a charity that solely funds research into neuroblastoma, a rare childhood cancer, is pleased to announce two research grant awards totalling £683,477, with a focus on improving treatment for children with advanced stages of the disease. Around 100 children are diagnosed with neuroblastoma every year in the UK. Children…

Three boys (ages 10, 13, and 15) with confirmed BRAF V600E mandibular ameloblastoma presented separately to a hospital. The tumors were all deemed to be "marginally resectable," and histopathologic examination found unicystic ameloblastoma, mural type, in all three cases. Clinicians planned standard-of-care treatment, which was radical surgery to completely excise…

Glioblastoma (histology slide). Credit: Wikipedia/CC BY-SA 3.0 New Cleveland Clinic research has found that drugs originally designed to help treat Alzheimer's disease may hold promise for glioblastoma, the most common and lethal type of primary brain tumor. The findings were published in Nature Cancer. A class of drugs called BACE1…