Sentences with phrase «of brain tumour»

Dr Steve Pollard and his team are developing potential new treatments for the most common type of brain tumour in adults, known as glioblastoma multiforme.

Milton Keynes, England About Blog The vision of Brain Tumour Research is to find a cure for brain tumours.

Lloyd Green died of a brain tumour almost two years ago, now his mother is determined his legacy lives on.

Finally, we hope that the principles presented in this study will also be applicable to other types of tumours in which we suspect GFI1 to be involved, including brain tumours such as medulloblastomas, the most common and most dangerous type of brain tumour in children.

Milton Keynes, England About Blog The vision of Brain Tumour Research is to find a cure for brain tumours.

Rowlands Gill, UK About Blog As this blog title suggests, the chances of me (the sibling of a brain tumour victim) developing my very own brain tumour, were apparently ridiculous.

Rowlands Gill, UK About Blog As this blog title suggests, the chances of me (the sibling of a brain tumour victim) developing my very own brain tumour, were apparently ridiculous.

Its aim is to improve understanding, diagnosis and treatment of brain tumours to improve outcomes for everyone affected.

Dr Harry Bulstrode at the University of Cambridge has received a Cancer Research UK Pioneer Award * to test the effect of the Zika virus on glioblastoma, the most common and aggressive form of brain tumour.

Even if you get most of the brain tumour out it comes back again, so we were wondering if you could leave something in the brain cavity that would help target chemotherapy precisely to the tumour to destroy the remaining tumour cells responsible for the disease coming back.

Later on, the diagnosis of a brain tumour in his three - month old son William - successfully operated on — would underline the very real human emotions that his work would deal with and, he says, help him become a better doctor.

The Government agree that a greater level of brain tumour research is urgently needed -LSB-...] the Minister for Life Sciences will be convening a working group of clinicians, charities and officials to discuss how working together with our research funding partners, we can address the need for more brain tumour research.

Professor Geoff Pilkington, study co-author and Head of the Brain Tumour Research Centre, said: «Although this work is still at an early stage, we have demonstrated key elements that are associated with tumour cell binding to blood vessels and this may provide a target for future drug development to prevent the development of secondary tumours in the brain.

AN insidious type of brain tumour cuts a swathe through the brain by secreting a compound that makes healthy neurons self - destruct.

And Dr Sara Erridge is running a clinical trial in Edinburgh to find the best way to treat a type of brain tumour called glioma.

Here Steve tells us how his interest in stem cells led him into cancer research and how he believes this angle of brain tumour research has unique potential for tackling cancers which are currently difficult to treat.

We need better biological understanding of brain tumours, but also closer interactions with our clinical colleagues to help translate these discoveries into the clinic.

«I originally trained as a developmental biologist, then, during my postdoc in stem cell biology, I became interested in research showing that the growth of brain tumours might be driven by cells similar to neural stem cells.

Professor John Griffiths, co-lead researcher based at the Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute, said: «The revelation that different types of brain tumours appear to be using similar tricks to survive was startling.

Awake craniotomy offers safe resection of brain tumours in eloquent area.

The Cancer Research UK - funded OPARATIC trial, which was managed by the charity's Centre for Drug Development, tested whether the ovarian cancer drug olaparib could reach glioblastoma, a type of brain tumour which is very difficult to treat.

Understanding the faulty genes that make this type of brain tumour more aggressive could lead to new treatments that target weaknesses in the cancer cells.

Tessa Jowell's final speech to Parliament in January this year, when dying of a brain tumour, was possibly her finest hour.

Its aim is to improve understanding, diagnosis and treatment of brain tumours to improve outcomes for everyone affected.

Dr Iain Foulkes, director of research and innovation at Cancer Research UK, said: «We urgently need new insights and treatments to tackle glioblastomas, one of the most common and difficult to treat forms of brain tumours.

Milton Keynes, England About Blog The vision of Brain Tumour Research is to find a cure for brain tumours.

Rowlands Gill, UK About Blog As this blog title suggests, the chances of me (the sibling of a brain tumour victim) developing my very own brain tumour, were apparently ridiculous.

Rowlands Gill, UK About Blog As this blog title suggests, the chances of me (the sibling of a brain tumour victim) developing my very own brain tumour, were apparently ridiculous.

Milton Keynes, England About Blog The vision of Brain Tumour Research is to find a cure for brain tumours.

«Furthermore, in aggressive types of brain tumours, several macroRNAs are produced much more actively than in tumours with a good prognosis.

Tessa Jowell's final speech to Parliament in January this year (pictured), when dying of a brain tumour, was possibly her finest hour, QUENTIN LETTS says

This included glioblastoma, the most aggressive of brain tumours, as well as lung, prostate, ovarian, breast, pancreatic and skin cancer.

IBM's Watson, the supercomputer that famously won the TV quiz Jeopardy! in 2011, is analysing gene sequences from the most aggressive types of brain tumours.

2003 — Our work leads to a new treatment option for children with medulloblastoma, a type of brain tumour.

Using samples from almost 400 patients, * the researchers listened in to the chemical chatter taking place inside the cell by measuring the levels of key chemicals in cells from each type of brain tumour.

** The team used data from eTumour, a previous European research programme, on the chemical contents of 378 patient samples from five different types of brain tumours: glioblastomas, astrocytomas, meningiomas, oligodendrogliomas, and tumours that had spread to the brain, called brain metastases.

Researchers at Karolinska Institutet and Uppsala University have discovered that a substance called Vacquinol - 1 makes cells from glioblastoma, the most aggressive type of brain tumour, literally explode.

Different types of brain tumours may use strikingly similar approaches to generate and use energy to survive in the brain, according to a new study * published in PLOS ONE.

Research from the Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute suggests that 4 types of brain tumours, and cancers that have spread to the brain, all generate and use energy with the same, specialised processes.

1987 — We discover a molecule that would later become the important drug temozolomide (Temodal), which is used worldwide today to treat people with the most common type of brain tumour, glioblastoma.

UK About Blog Brain Tumour Support is the only charity in the South West & Midlands dedicated to supporting anyone affected by any type of brain tumour.

The daughters think that their delapidated building is haunted, but in fact it is their family which is haunted by unresolved memories of the girls» brother Frankie, who recently died of a brain tumour.

UK About Blog Brain Tumour Support is the only charity in the South West & Midlands dedicated to supporting anyone affected by any type of brain tumour.

It's the year before Hesse died of a brain tumour, aged 34.

Its aim is to improve understanding, diagnosis and treatment of brain tumours to improve outcomes for everyone affected.

UK About Blog Brain Tumour Support is the only charity in the South West & Midlands dedicated to supporting anyone affected by any type of brain tumour.

UK About Blog Brain Tumour Support is the only charity in the South West & Midlands dedicated to supporting anyone affected by any type of brain tumour.

Its aim is to improve understanding, diagnosis and treatment of brain tumours to improve outcomes for everyone affected.