Brain tumors

New tumor marker offers new approach for brain tumors therapy

harminka — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 09:57:19 -0500

Malignant brain tumors often fail to respond to promising new medication. Researchers in Heidelberg have discovered a mechanism and a tumor marker for the development of this resistance. A “death receptor” can possibly provide information as to how great the chances of success are for chemotherapy. At the same time, it offers a new approach for promising brain tumor therapy.

Fly Gene Provides Nes Insights For Human Brain Tumors

harminka — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 14:02:25 -0500

In the fruit fly's developing brain, stem cells called neuroblasts normally divide to create one self-renewing neuroblast and one cell that has a different fate. But neuroblast growth can sometimes spin out of control and become a brain tumor.

First Step Done For Non-Invasive Treatment of Brain Tumors

harminka — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 00:50:12 -0500

Duke University engineers have taken a first step toward a minimally invasive treatment of brain tumors by combining chemotherapy with heat administered from the end of a catheter.

Natalie Ciaccio to study promising cancer drug target

harminka — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 06:59:48 -0500

Natalie Ciaccio, a fourth-year graduate student researcher in the Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry at the University of Kansas, is investigating what might be an ideal target for anti-cancer drug therapy, and she is focusing her work on brain tumors specifically.

Biological clue in brain tumour development found

harminka — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 11:56:43 -0500

Scientists at The University of Nottingham have uncovered a vital new biological clue that could lead to more effective treatments for a children’s brain tumour that currently kills more than 60 per cent of young sufferers.

New tumor markers determine therapy intensity

harminka — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 09:49:22 -0500

Genetic aberrations in childhood brain tumors provide precise information on the course of the disease; Heidelberg researchers publish in the Journal of Clinical Oncology

New successful therapy against brain tumors

harminka — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 10:04:15 -0600

The combination of two drugs produces a critical improvement in the treatment of certain brain tumours. This has been demonstrated by researchers at Bonn University working in co-operation with German and Swiss colleagues in a current study.

Gene therapy eliminates brain tumors through selective recruitment of immune cells

harminka — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 06:15:53 -0600

In laboratory and animal studies, a 2-pronged gene therapeutic approach resulted in tumor regression and long-term survival; next step is a human clinical trial

Best treatments for long-term survival in brain tumor patients

harminka — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 06:20:23 -0600

A new Mayo Clinic study found that patients with low-grade gliomas survived longest when they underwent aggressive surgeries to successfully remove the entire tumor. If safely removing the entire tumor was not possible, patients survived significantly longer when surgery was followed by radiation therapy.

Alternatives for radiation of low-grade brain tumors

harminka — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 02:56:11 -0500

Chemotherapy may help delay cranial radiation and minimize damaging side effects

New approach to gene therapy may shrink brain tumors

harminka — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 07:56:11 -0500

Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) researchers are investigating a new approach to gene therapy for brain tumors – delivering a cancer-fighting gene to normal brain tissue around the tumor to keep it from spreading.

Erectile dysfunction drugs allowed more chemotherapy to reach brain tumors

harminka — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 09:07:18 -0500

In a study using laboratory animals, researchers found that medications commonly prescribed for erectile dysfunction opened a mechanism called the blood-brain tumor barrier and increased delivery of cancer-fighting drugs to malignant brain tumors.