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Nanoparticle triggers the immune system, outsmarting brain cancer: Researc
Updated : 3 years, 9 months ago IST
Washington [US], May 27 (ANI): According to the scientists at the University of Michigan Rogel Cancer Center, a small molecule has been identified that blocks a key pathway in brain tumours. But there was a problem: How to get the inhibitor through the bloodstream and into the brain to reach
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Researchers find new approach for treatment of devastating brain tumours
Updated : 3 years, 10 months ago IST
Washington [US], May 10 (ANI): The findings from a seven-year research project suggests that there could be a new approach to treating one of the most common and devastating forms of brain cancer in adults, Glioblastoma Multiforme (GBM).
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Children age 0-3 months with brain tumours shows five-year survival: Study
Updated : 3 years, 11 months ago IST
Aurora [US], March 28 (ANI): Researchers from the University of Colorado (CU) Cancer Center has found that the youngest patients with brain tumours - those ages from 0 to 3 months - have about half the five-year survival rate as children ages 1 to 19.
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New study finds if bacteria confound genetic switch
Updated : 4 years, 1 month ago IST
New York [US], February 4 (ANI): For decades, a small group of medical researchers have been studying a biochemical, DNA tagging system, which switches genes on or off. Many have studied it in bacteria and now some have seen signs of it in, plants, flies, and even human brain tumours. Accord
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Scientists develop novel magnetic seeds to heat and kill cancer
Updated : 4 years, 1 month ago IST
London [England], February 2 (ANI): Every day brings in new solutions and ways of treating deadly diseases. One of the deadliest diseases, undoubtedly is cancer. Now, scientists at UCL have developed a novel cancer therapy that uses an MRI scanner to guide a magnetic seed through the brain t
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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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Researchers find HIV drugs may treat low-grade brain tumours
Updated : 4 years, 2 months ago IST
Plymouth [UK], December 19 (ANI): A new research has found that the drugs used to treat HIV/AIDS patients could be used to treat patients diagnosed with the most common form of primary brain tumour.
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Study finds why asthma may reduce risk of brain tumours
Updated : 4 years, 3 months ago IST
Washington [US], December 12 (ANI): Asthma patients seem to be less likely to develop brain tumours than others. Researchers at the Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis believe that they have discovered why.
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Research shows different types of cancers likely to spread to specific bra
Updated : 4 years, 5 months ago IST
Los Angeles (California) [US], September 23 (ANI): New research has shown that brain metastasis occurs when cancer in one part of the body spreads to the brain. The lifetime incidence of such metastatic brain tumours in cancer patients is between 20-45 per cent.
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Therapeutic targets in canine brain tumours can be provided by varying imm
Updated : 4 years, 6 months ago IST
Washington [US], August 22 (ANI): High-grade gliomas, or brain tumours, in dogs contain more immune cells associated with suppressing immune response than low-grade gliomas, as per the findings of a new study.
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Varying immune cell levels in canine brain tumours could provide therapeut
Updated : 4 years, 6 months ago IST
Washington [US], August 20 (ANI): A new study reveals that high-grade gliomas, or brain tumours, in dogs contained more immune cells associated with suppressing immune response than low-grade gliomas.
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Single MRI scan can classify brain tumours using deep learning model
Updated : 4 years, 7 months ago IST
Washington [US], August 14 (ANI): Researchers have developed a deep learning model that is capable of classifying a brain tumour as one of six common types, using a single 3D MRI scan, during a new study.
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