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.
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.
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.
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.
** 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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