Brain tumors News

TUESDAY, April 17 (HealthDay News) -- A vaccine made from brain cancer patients' own tumor cells led to a nearly 50 percent improvement in survival times for those stricken with glioblastoma multiforme, the same malignancy that claimed the life of...

TUESDAY, April 10 (HealthDay News) -- People who underwent frequent dental X-rays in the past, before radiation doses were lowered, may be at greater risk of a usually benign form of tumor in the lining of the brain, a new study suggests. The rese...

MONDAY, April 11 (HealthDay News) -- A vaccine that jumpstarts the immune system is showing promise in keeping a deadly type of cancerous brain tumor at bay. Glioblastoma, or malignant glioma, is the most common type of cancerous brain tumor. It's...

FRIDAY, April 8 (HealthDay News) -- People with epileptic seizures are much more likely than others to be diagnosed with a brain tumor, a new study indicates. The findings suggest that epileptic seizures may indicate the presence of a very early-s...

THURSDAY, Dec. 16 (HealthDay News) -- U.S. scientists have unraveled the genetic code for the most common type of brain cancer in children. Gene sequencing reveals that this tumor, medulloblastoma, or MB, possesses far fewer genetic abnormalities ...

WEDNESDAY, June 2 (HealthDay News) -- A modified form of the measles virus could become a treatment for a kind of brain tumor in children, researchers report. The tumor, known as medulloblastoma, occurs in about 20 percent of childhood brain cance...

WEDNESDAY, May 12 (HealthDay News) -- A drug already approved for the treatment of erectile dysfunction may actually help boost the effectiveness of treatments for brain tumors tied to both lung and breast cancer, research shows. The finding stems...

FRIDAY, May 7 (HealthDay News) -- At the age of 5, Lauren Ashley began complaining that "her eyes hurt." An ophthalmologist who examined her suspected a brain tumor because of swelling of the optic nerve, which sends information from the retina to...

WEDNESDAY, Dec. 23 (HealthDay News) -- Two genes working in concert seem to spur the deadliest form of brain tumor, glioblastoma, the disease that took Sen. Ted Kennedy's life last August. Scientists reporting in the Dec. 23 online edition of Natu...

THURSDAY, Dec. 3 (HealthDay News) -- Whether cell phones cause brain cancer has been a subject of ongoing debate, but a new study confirms previous evidence suggesting that they don't. A 30-year examination of the incidents of brain tumors in Scan...

TUESDAY, Oct. 13 (HealthDay News) -- The latest study focusing on a possible cell phone-brain tumor connection finds a weak potential link between the two. A review of existing research on the topic, published online Oct. 13 in the Journal of Clin...

TUESDAY, Oct. 6 (HealthDay News) -- Exercising during adolescence may help guard against a deadly form of brain tumor in adulthood, new research suggests. The study also found that avoiding obesity during the teen years was associated with a lower...

FRIDAY, Aug. 7 (HealthDay News) -- Even at low doses, radiation therapy for low-grade brain tumors can cause progressive decline in cognitive functioning, a new study reports. Radiation is the most widely used treatment for such tumors, known as l...

TUESDAY, July 14 (HealthDay News) -- Researchers have identified a network of mutated genes and gene processes that, together, contribute to the development of glioblastomas, the deadliest type of brain tumor. "There is not a single gene that acco...

TUESDAY, June 23 (HealthDay News) -- A new biomarker that may help predict whether someone with a brain tumor will respond to a given treatment has been identified by U.S. researchers. Looking to see who would respond to anti-vascular endothelial ...

MONDAY, May 4 (HealthDay News) -- Using a catheter to deliver chemotherapy drugs directly into a deadly type of brain tumor is showing promise in early clinical trials, researchers report. Malignant gliomas are difficult to treat using standard ch...

WEDNESDAY, April 15 (HealthDay News) -- The type of brain tumor can determine whether entry through the nose or the eyebrow is the best approach for minimally invasive "keyhole" surgery to remove the tumor, a new study finds. Both approaches have ...

THURSDAY, April 2 (HealthDay News) -- Anti-angiogenesis drugs reduce edema (swelling of brain tissue) caused by deadly brain tumors called glioblastomas, a new study suggests. Anti-angiogenesis drugs prevent the formation of new blood vessels that...

MONDAY, March 9 (HealthDay News) -- Treatment with a combination of the chemotherapy drug temozolomide and radiotherapy increases survival for glioblastoma brain tumor patients better than radiotherapy alone, and the improvement persists for up to...

THURSDAY, March 5 (HealthDay News) -- Temozolomide, a standard treatment for brain cancer, may boost the aggressiveness of surviving cancer cells, making tumor recurrence more likely, a new study suggests. The research team, from Memorial Sloan-Ke...

MONDAY, Jan. 26 (HealthDay News) -- A gene variant that may increase the risk of developing brain cancer at a young age has been identified by French researchers. They studied 254 people with malignant brain tumors and 238 people with no cancers. ...