IDH-mutant glioma, caused by abnormalities in a specific gene (IDH), is the most common malignant brain tumor among young ...

Brain tumors have long been treated as rogue invaders: growing, spreading, and resisting treatment on their own. But new ...

Researchers have developed a new computational approach that uncovers possible drugs for specific cellular targets for ...

Ellie James said she believes her husband would still be alive had the law been in place when he was receiving treatment ...

A nano-sized medicine boosts the anti-cancer immune response and eradicates tumors in mice. Researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, working with colleagues at ...

Guardant co-CEO Helmy Eltoukhy says the shift to personalized treatment and earlier diagnosis is here at the WIRED Health ...

Even when you can afford the best health care, there is still a struggle. June 6, 2011 -- Wall Street billionaire Ted Forstmann is fighting for his life -- reportedly against the same virulent form of ...

For the first time, scientists have detailed how a deadly brain cancer has a unique path of progression, aggressively eating away at the skull itself – and how drugs to impede this end up making it ...

Oligodendroglioma is a rare type of brain tumor. It’s in a category of brain and spinal cord tumors called gliomas. These are brain or spinal cord tumors that come from abnormal glial cells, the ...

Using your phone for 15 hours a month over five years doesn’t sound like much, but that’s the amount of time scientists say can increase your risk of developing certain types of brain cancers. Despite ...

It sounds like something from a horror movie: A disease that eats through bone, dissolving the fused plates of the skull like bubbling acid. But a type of brain cancer called glioblastoma actually ...