Sentences with phrase «primary brain cancer»

While most types of primary brain cancer may spread within the brain, it is rare for a primary brain tumor to spread outside the brain.

The study bases its findings on interviews conducted between 1994 and 1998 with 469 men and women diagnosed with primary brain cancer and 422 people without the disease.

Glioblastoma multiforme (GBM) is considered the most malignant of primary brain cancers with only about 12 % of patients living beyond 36 months (long - term survivors).

Metastatic brain tumors are ten times more common than primary brain cancers.

He focused almost immediately on the challenge of defending the brain against its deadliest enemy — glioblastoma multiforme, the most common and rapacious form of primary brain cancer.

One of the studies showed that mutations affect how cancer starts in glial cells — brain cells that provide support and insulation for neurons — and how those mutations affect the way cancer evolves from low - grade gliomas to full - blown high - grade glioblastomas, the most common and deadly of primary brain cancer.

It's a primary brain cancer, which means that it originates directly from the brain, and it's not coming from a different kind of tumor located in another part of the body.

In a 2012 study published in Science, the CUMC team found that some cases of glioblastoma, the most common and aggressive form of primary brain cancer, are caused by the fusion of two genes, FGFR3 and TACC3.

New York, NY (July 26, 2012)-- Researchers at Columbia University Medical Center (CUMC) have discovered that some cases of glioblastoma, the most common and aggressive form of primary brain cancer, are caused by the fusion of two adjacent genes.

In addition, the latest statistics show that primary brain cancer is now the second leading cause of cancer death in women aged 0 - 44 years (after breast cancer).