Brain Tumor News

July 19, 2024

Top Headlines

New Technique Could Help Treat Aggressive Brain Tumors

July 17, 2024 — Burst sine wave electroporation was found to cause less damage to cells and tissue but more disruption to the blood-brain ...

Scientists Exploring Potential New Treatments for Glioblastoma

July 8, 2024 — A new approach to treating the most malignant type of brain cancer -- glioblastoma -- has shown strong promise in pre-clinical settings, raising hopes of increasing current average survival rates beyond 18 ...

Study Points at Novel Approach to Treat Group 3 Medulloblastoma

July 9, 2024 — A team of researchers has identified and located a population of stem-like cells that initiates and maintains Group 3 medulloblastoma (Gr3-MB) in the developing brain. Gr3-MB is one of the most aggressive forms of brain cancer in children and is ...

Already 30 Minutes of Exercise Increases the Proportion of Tumor-Killing White Blood Cells in Blood

July 3, 2024 — A new study shows that already a 30-minute exercise can increase the proportion of tumor-killing white blood cells in the bloodstream of breast cancer ...

Latest Headlines

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How to Stop Cancer Cachexia? Start at the Top

July 8, 2024 — Researchers have discovered a new potential drug target for the lethal wasting disease known as cancer cachexia. Their findings illustrate that even small groups of neurons in the brain can have an ...

More Effective Cancer Treatment With Iontronic Pump

June 19, 2024 — When low doses of cancer drugs are administered continuously near malignant brain tumors using so-called iontronic technology, cancer cell growth drastically decreases. Researchers demonstrated this ...

Pediatric Brain Tumors Rely on Different Metabolic 'Route' to Fuel Treatment Resistance

June 13, 2024 — Researchers are one step closer to understanding how pediatric DIPG tumors ...

Study Identifies Potential Pathway to Reducing Breast Cancer Brain Metastases

June 7, 2024 — A study has identified a biological mechanism that could lead to more effective treatments for breast cancer that has metastasized to the ...

New Glioblastoma Treatment Reaches Human Brain Tumor and Helps Immune Cells Recognize Cancer Cells

June 6, 2024 — In a major advance for the treatment of the deadly brain cancer glioblastoma, scientists used ultrasound technology to penetrate the blood-brain ...

New Research Platform Assesses Brain Cancer Mutations During Surgery

May 30, 2024 — Brain cancer is difficult to treat when it starts growing, and a prevalent type, known as a glioma, has a poor five-year survival rate. In a new study, researchers report on a new surgical platform ...

Scientists Uncover Promising Treatment Target for Resistant Brain Cancer

May 20, 2024 — For many patients with a deadly type of brain cancer called glioblastoma, chemotherapy resistance is a big problem. But now, researchers may have moved a step closer to a ...

New Immunosuppressive Mechanism Found in Brain Cancer

May 3, 2024 — Scientists have discovered how glioblastoma evades the immune system by inducing pro-tumor macrophages via a glucose based epigenetic ...

New mRNA Cancer Vaccine Triggers Fierce Immune Response to Fight Malignant Brain Tumor

May 1, 2024 — An mRNA cancer vaccine quickly reprogrammed the immune system to attack the most aggressive type of brain tumor in a first-ever human clinical ...

Genetically Engineering a Treatment for Incurable Brain Tumors

Apr. 22, 2024 — Scientists are developing and validating a patent-pending novel immunotherapy to be used against glioblastoma brain tumors. Glioblastomas are almost always lethal with a median survival time of 14 ...

Earlier Headlines

'Dual-Target' Cell Therapy Appears to Shrink Brain Tumors, Research Finds

Mar. 13, 2024 — Targeting two brain tumor-associated proteins -- rather than one -- with CAR T cell therapy shows promise as a strategy for reducing solid tumor growth in patients with recurrent glioblastoma (GBM), ...

Zika Virus Vaccine Emerges as an Unlikely Hero in Battling Brain Cancer

Mar. 8, 2024 — Scientists have developed a new approach using the Zika virus to destroy brain cancer cells and inhibit tumor growth, while sparing healthy ...

New Model of Key Brain Tumor Feature Could Help Scientists Understand How to Develop New Treatments

Feb. 29, 2024 — Researchers are exploiting a unique biological feature of glioblastoma to gain a better understanding of how this puzzling brain cancer develops and how to target new treatments against it. The team ...

New Study Offers Hope for Thousands Impacted Each Year by Aggressive Brain Cancer

Feb. 15, 2024 — New research identifies protein (PANK4) as an obstacle that blocks cancer cells from responding to chemotherapeutic treatment for ...

Cancer GPS Method Evaluates Model Tumor Malignancy

Jan. 22, 2024 — A water-soluble, luminescent europium complex enables evaluation of malignancy grade in model glioma tumor ...

Reprogrammed Fat Cells Support Tumor Growth

Jan. 3, 2024 — Mutations of the tumor suppressor p53 not only have a growth-promoting effect on the cancer cells themselves, but also influence the cells in the tumor's microenvironment. Scientists have now ...

Foundation Laid for Improved Diagnostic Imaging of Brain Tumors

Jan. 3, 2024 — Research team draws up criteria for PET-based examinations of malignant brain ...

Understudied Cell in the Brain Could Be Key to Treating Glioblastoma

Dec. 12, 2023 — Glioblastoma is one of the most treatment-resistant cancers, with those diagnosed surviving for less than two years. In a new study, researchers have found that a largely understudied cell could ...

Researchers Identify Cell Signaling Pathway Controlling Melanoma Cell Metastasis to the Brain

Nov. 29, 2023 — Researchers have been working to better understand what drives melanoma brain metastasis. They now report on the identification of a cell signaling pathway that regulates the metastatic spread of ...

Drugs Already Licensed Could Be Trialled to Potentially Treat Secondary Brain Cancer

Nov. 29, 2023 — The largest review of papers for brain cancer that has spread from the lungs has found abnormalities in the brain cancer and for which licensed drugs could be clinically trialed to find out if they ...

CRISPR-Powered 'Cancer Shredding' Technique Opens New Possibility for Treating Most Common and Deadly Brain Cancer

Nov. 27, 2023 — The gene-editing technology CRISPR shows early promise as a therapeutic strategy for the aggressive and difficult-to-treat brain cancer known as primary glioblastoma, according to new ...

Promising Target for CAR T Cells Helps Cancer Trick the Immune System

Nov. 21, 2023 — GRP78 is a promising CAR T-cell immunotherapy target for brain and solid tumors. Discover why it's special, including how cancer uses it to trick immune ...

Cancer Stem Cells Trigger Macrophage Aging

Nov. 14, 2023 — Cancer stem cells cause the aging of macrophages in mice with healthy immune systems, creating conditions for the formation of ...

DNA Organization Influences the Growth of Deadly Brain Tumors in Response to Neuronal Signals

Oct. 31, 2023 — A pioneering study has unveiled that the 3D organization of DNA can influence the progression of the aggressive brain tumor known as glioblastoma. Having identified the factors that glioblastoma uses ...

New Clue to Treat Brain Cancer

Oct. 27, 2023 — A new research study shows that cerebrospinal fluid reduces current treatment efficacy in brain cancer and identifies new therapeutic opportunities. Cerebrospinal fluid, the clear colourless liquid ...

Mitochondrial Protein Plays Key Role in Glioblastoma and Therapeutic Resistance

Oct. 17, 2023 — Glioblastoma is the most common type of brain tumor that affects adults and, unfortunately, still remains incurable. In a new study, researchers have demonstrated that a specific mitochondrial ...

Brain Tumor Treatment by Targeting TUG1, a Gene That Controls Replication Stress

Oct. 12, 2023 — A new study has revealed a crucial link between the TUG1 gene and the ability of cancer cells to proliferate under high-stress conditions. Targeting this gene with a new therapy suppressed tumor ...

Avatars to Help Tailor Glioblastoma Therapies

Oct. 4, 2023 — Scientists have created a new zebrafish xenograft platform to screen for novel treatments for an aggressive brain tumor called glioblastoma, according to a new ...

Study Shows How Brain Tumors Make Certain Immune Cells Turn Traitor

Sep. 28, 2023 — A new study has for the first time exhaustively analyzed neutrophils that reside in brain tumors, detailing how the immune cells support brain cancer survival and how they're manipulated by the ...

Mutation-Specific Peptide Vaccine Against Midline Gliomas Used in Patients

Sep. 21, 2023 — Tumor vaccines can help the body fight cancer. These vaccines alert the patient's immune system to proteins that are carrying cancer-typical alterations. Physicians and cancer researchers have ...