brain cancer
Using AI to predict life expectancy—and identify candidates for experimental trials—among glioblastoma patients
Glioblastoma is an aggressive, killer disease. While victims of this fast-moving brain tumor comprise only about 15% of all people ...
Electrical stimulation can ‘starve’ brain cancers, early study shows
Researchers have shown that electrical stimulation to the skull can starve brain cancers of vital nutrient-rich blood, opening the door ...
‘It’s very encouraging’: Experimental gene therapy shows promise for glioblastoma patients in clinical trial
An inducible, tumor-localized gene therapy has been tested for the first time in glioblastoma patients. The two-part approach, which involves ...
Cancer has a male bias and we’re just starting to understand why
More than half of neurooncologist Josh Rubin’s pediatric brain cancer patients over his 25-year career have been boys. … About a ...
‘Glioblastoma-on-a-chip’ could boost efforts to treat deadliest human cancer
The most common form of malignant brain cancer—called a glioblastoma—is notoriously wily and considered the deadliest human cancer. … [R]esearchers ...
Cancer advocacy: How one man and his family have coped with glioblastoma
[Adam and Whitney Hayden] waited to find out if today was the day they would learn that the cancer had ...
Viewpoint: Here’s how activists manipulate cell phone cancer risk statistics to fool regulators
Although some people argue that cell phone usage contributes to rising brain cancer rates, analysis of the data shows no ...
