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Mobile Phone Use Not Linked To Increased Risk Of Glioma Brain Tumors, According To New Study
January 19, 2006 Mobile phones are not associated with an increased risk of the most common type of brain tumour, finds the first UK study of the relationship between mobile phone use and risk of glioma. The results ... > full story -
Researchers Identify Target For Therapeutic Drugs To Fight Most Common Adult Brain Cancer
January 15, 2006 A research team at UT Southwestern Medical Center has discovered a cell-signaling mechanism instrumental in the most common brain cancer in ... > full story -
Researchers At Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center Uncover Clue To Explain Invasive Brain Tumors
January 10, 2006 Researchers at the Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center have uncovered a clue to explain the invasive nature of an aggressive kind of brain tumor called glioblastoma multiforme, or gliomas, and their ... > full story -
Radiotherapy Advance Points Way To Noninvasive Brain Cancer Treatment
January 1, 2006 In the Jan. 1, 2006 issue of the journal Clinical Cancer Research, a University of Wisconsin-Madison physics team reports on research into using a new radiotherapy technique for fighting glioblastoma ... > full story -
Patients Regain Cognitive Function After Radiation For Brain Tumors
November 26, 2005 Patients who suffer from low-grade brain tumors are able to regain normal cognitive function after receiving radiation therapy to shrink their tumor, according to a study published in the November ... > full story -
Poxvirus Used To Fight Cancer: Malignant Human Brain Tumors 'Cured' In Mice
November 17, 2005 A cross-Canada scientific collaboration has successfully tested a potent new cancer-fighting virus that eliminates malignant brain tumors and prolongs survival in mice with a single injection. The ... > full story -
UCLA Discovery Will Aid In Treatment Of Patients With A Deadly Brain Cancer
November 10, 2005 Researchers at UCLA's Jonsson Cancer have identified key characteristics in certain deadly brain tumors that make them 51 times more likely to respond to a specific class of drugs than tumors in ... > full story -
Gene Therapy Improves Chemo Drug's Effects In Experimental Brain Tumor Model
November 7, 2005 Attempts to improve the chemotherapeutic efficacy and radiotherapy-sensitivity of the anticancer agent, gemcitabine, using gene therapy have yielded interesting results in preclinical glioma models ... > full story -
New Therapeutic Target Identified In Inherited Brain Tumor Disorder
November 3, 2005 Researchers studying a mouse model of neurofibromatosis 1 (NF1), a genetic condition that causes childhood brain tumors, have found their second new drug target in a year, a protein called methionine ... > full story -
Novel Treatment Target For Deadly Brain Tumors Identified
October 31, 2005 Researchers at Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center have identified a second promising treatment target for glioblastoma multiforme, one of the most deadly types of brain tumors. The ... > full story
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