Patients with a particularly aggressive type of brain cancer typically don't have many treatment options. (sciencemag.org)
Two Gene Mutations Linked to Most Common Brain Cancers Scientists at the Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center and Duke University Medical Center linked mutations in two genes, IDH1 and IDH2, to nearly three - quarters of several of the most common types of brain cancers known as gliomas. (hopkinsmedicine.org)
There are several types of brain cancer, classified by the type of cell from which they originate. (cancerresearch.org)