Blastoma

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…

Publish date: Nov 12, 2021 2:00 AM EST Philogen Provides Corporate Update Nidlegy ™ and Fibromun are on track with planned timelines in pivotal clinical trials Fibromun shows potent activity in last-line glioblastoma in combination with Lomustine The OncoFAP platform shows promising results... Philogen Provides Corporate Update Nidlegy ™ and…

One day in 2010, when oncologist Paul Muizelaar operated on a patient with glioblastoma—a brain tumor infamous for its deathly toll—he did something shocking. First, he cut the skull open and carved out as much of the tumor as he could. But before he replaced the piece of skull to…

Scientists have discovered a new link that could bring the scientific and medical community closer to understanding why glioblastoma, the most common malignant brain tumor, is deadlier in males than females. A new study by Florida International University's Robert Stempel College of Public Health & Social Work, Cleveland Clinic Lerner…

In January this year, Laura Caluori received a phone call that would change her life.  She was told that her 39-year-old brother, Stuart, had been diagnosed with a glioblastoma – a cancerous brain tumour the size of a £2 coin.  ‘I Googled it straight away, which was probably the worst…

Researchers at MIT and Dana-Farber Cancer Institute have developed a new way to determine whether an individual cancer patient will respond to a particular drug. Their method involves exposing cells to the drug and then measuring changes in their mass using a device similar to the one shown. Credit: Figure…