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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…

Santa Barbara, CA, September 23, 2021 --(PR.com)-- 25-year-old Mark Melchiore from Philadelphia, PA shared a final smile with Pro Football Hall of Fame quarterback and FOX Sports lead NFL game analyst, Troy Aikman, a man Mark had long admired. After Mark had been diagnosed with Glioblastoma and given a life expectancy…

PENDANG: There is nothing a mother can do other than pray to God that her seven-year-old son who suffers from stage four neuroblastoma, a malignant cancer of the nervous system, will survive the ordeal and be able to enjoy life like any other child. Fara Wahida Md Ishak, 37, who…

McGill University researchers identify proteins that drive cancer stem cells. Targeting and supressing a particular protein called galectin1 could provide a more effective treatment for glioblastoma, in combination with radiation therapy. Due to its resistance to therapy, glioblastoma is the most common and aggressive cancerous brain tumour in adults. It…

Josie Rock was taking pictures of her 3-month-old son Asher when the lighting in the room suddenly dimmed, initiating the flash on her iPhone. Asher's eyes opened wide, but instead of his pupils glowing red, as they normally do when a flash is used, one of his pupils was white.…

A case report describes a novel helmet device that generates a noninvasive oscillating magnetic field and that shrunk a glioblastoma tumor by about a third. This is the first time that the wearable Oncomagnetic device was tried with a patient. The Oncomagnetic device. The patient had end-stage recurrent glioblastoma and…

A practice-changing study that used molecular testing to distinguish between subtypes of medulloblastoma has shown a significant improvement in survival for children with high-risk disease who underwent treatment intensification with carboplatin. "Each of the four subgroups of medulloblastoma has a different prognosis, but for this particular subgroup, 20 fewer children…

Device helmet with 3 oncoscillators securely attached. The oncoscillators are connected to a controller box powered by a rechargeable battery. Credit: Houston Methodist Houston Methodist Neurological Institute researchers from the department of neurosurgery shrunk a deadly glioblastoma tumor by more than a third using a helmet generating a noninvasive oscillating…

IMAGE: EGCG maintains neuronal cell cytoskeleton integrity. Methyl glyoxal treatment leads to glycation of actin and microtubules leading to hampered growth of neuritic extensions and microtubule organization. Microtubule stabilization by +TIP... view more  Credit: Correspondence to - Subashchandrabose Chinnathambi - s.chinnathambi@ncl.res.in Oncotarget published "Epigallocatechin-3-gallate modulates Tau Post-translational modifications and cytoskeletal network"…