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Study reveals machine learning can predict brain tumor progression
Updated : 3 years, 1 month ago IST
Researchers at the University of Waterloo have developed a computational model to better accurately anticipate the emergence of lethal brain tumours.
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US FDA Grants Breakthrough Designation for Blood Test to Help Diagnose Ina
Updated : 3 years, 2 months ago IST
Mumbai (Maharashtra) [India], January 3 (ANI/PRNewswire): Datar Cancer Genetics announced today that the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted 'Breakthrough Device Designation' for its 'TriNetra™-Glio', a blood test to help in the diagnosis of brain tumors. This is the thir
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Research: Pair of key enzymes help regulate genome
Updated : 3 years, 2 months ago IST
After an intrepid, decade-long search, Johns Hopkins Medicine scientists say they have found a new role for a pair of enzymes that regulate genome function and, when missing or mutated, are linked to diseases such as brain tumors, blood cancers and Kleefstra syndrome a rare genetic, neurocog
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Pediatric brain tumors can relapse due to a stem cell protein
Updated : 3 years, 4 months ago IST
Researchers at Uppsala University have discovered a certain protein that makes tumour cells resting and insensitive to radiation treatment.
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Researchers find how cells are connected to brain tumor growth and recurre
Updated : 3 years, 7 months ago IST
Washington [US], July 25 (ANI): A study revealed that tumors are made up of many different cell types, including both cancerous and benign. The unique intricacy of the cells found inside brain tumours has been a defining feature of the condition, one that makes therapy very challenging. Alth
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NeoImmuneTech obtains approval for phase 2 trial of brain tumor treatment
Updated : 3 years, 10 months ago IST
Seoul [South Korea], May 12 (ANI/Global Economic): NeoImmuneTech said on the 11th that it has obtained the approval for a phase 2 clinical trial plan that concomitant administration of US Merck's immune checkpoint inhibitor Keytruda and its T-cell amplifier NT-I7 to patients with glioblastom
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Exercise could help reduce severity of serious cancer complication, finds
Updated : 3 years, 11 months ago IST
Greensboro [US], April 4 (ANI): Researchers have identified yet another benefit of keeping up the exercise routine. A recent study has found that exercising prior to developing cancer was associated with slower tumor growth and helped reduce the effects of a cancer complication known as wast
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When is chemotherapy most effective? Research suggests, it varies with tim
Updated : 4 years, 1 month ago IST
Morgantown (West Virginia) [US], January 27 (ANI): Brain tumours are among the trickiest to treat as the blood-brain barrier keeps foreign substances like germs and toxins from entering the brain. By shielding the brain from things that would harm it, the blood-brain barrier also blocks the
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11-year-old becomes collector for a day in Ahmedabad
Updated : 4 years, 5 months ago IST
Ahmedabad (Gujarat) [India], September 19 (ANI): An 11-year-old girl, Flora Asodia, suffering from a brain tumour, was made collector for a day on Saturday in Ahmedabad.
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Woman recites Hanuman Chalisa while undergoing brain tumor surgery at AIIM
Updated : 4 years, 7 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], July 23 (ANI): Devotional verses from the Hanuman Chalisa recited by a 24-year-old patient resounded inside an operating room at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences here as doctors performed a complex surgery to successfully remove her brain tumour.
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Patients with noncancerous brain tumors affecting hearing may benefit from
Updated : 4 years, 7 months ago IST
Washington [US], July 18 (ANI): The findings of a recent study indicated that the blood pressure drug losartan can benefit patients suffering from neurofibromatosis type 2 (NF2). It's a hereditary condition associated with vestibular schwannomas or noncancerous tumours along the nerves in t
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Antihypertension drug may help patients with noncancerous brain tumors aff
Updated : 4 years, 8 months ago IST
Washington [US], July 16 (ANI): A new study indicated that the blood pressure drug losartan may benefit patients with neurofibromatosis type 2 (NF2), a hereditary condition associated with vestibular schwannomas, or noncancerous tumors along the nerves in the brain that are involved with hea
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