Items Tagged ‘brain cancer’
November 12, 2018
Research News Roundup — October 2018
Welcome to Advancing the Science. On Mayo Clinic’s medical research blog we have a wide range of research and research-education content. In addition to stories you won’t find anywhere else, we also collect content from other sources in one easy-to-access spot. The monthly Research News Roundup is one such aggregator, highlighting and linking to all […]
Tags: Ayalew Tefferi, brain cancer, breast cancer, cancer, Center for Individualized Medicine, Elizabeth Cathcart-Rake, health disparities, hematology, inflammatory bowel disease, integrative medicine, John Hawse, Julie Heimbach
October 12, 2017
NIH awards Mayo Clinic researchers $3.4 million glioblastoma grant
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) awarded Mayo Clinic researchers in Arizona a $3.4 million grant to study how mathematical modeling can be used to help treat patients with glioblastoma – the most common type of malignant brain cancer. Glioblastomas are made up of many different cell types and tumor cell subtypes. These cells can invade […]
Tags: brain cancer, cancer
September 20, 2017
Expanding our fold – Mayo Clinic’s newest research related websites
At Mayo Clinic, research is integral to everything we do. We would be unable to offer the highest possible levels of care and continually improve the practice of medicine without research, and the education programs and processes to make it a reality. We are pleased to introduce some of our newest programs – or in […]
Tags: brain cancer, brain tumor
June 15, 2017
A personalized approach to brain tumor surgery
By Susan Buckles New technology invented and used only at Mayo Clinic lets physicians plan an individualized approach to brain surgery. Brain magnetic resonance elastography (MRE) allows surgeons to see inside a patient’s skull and determine the firmness of a brain tumor before surgery. Slip interface imaging is another new invention that shows level of […]
Tags: brain cancer, brain tumor, Center for Individualized Medicine, individualized medicine
April 11, 2017
Mayo Clinic researchers use zebrafish to identify potential treatment for pediatric cancer
Using a novel zebrafish model, Mayo Clinic researchers have identified a molecule called GAB2 that is highly represented in the malignant cells of many patients with neuroblastoma. Neuroblastoma is a cancer that develops from immature neural cells found in several areas of the body. The researchers believe that overexpression of GAB2 signals the activation of […]
Tags: brain cancer, Mayo Clinic Cancer Center, Shizhen (Jane) Zhu, zebrafish
December 15, 2016
Combination therapy improves survival in adults with glioma
Radiation plus three-drug combo boosts progression-free survival and overall survival. Patients with a low-grade type of brain tumor called glioma who received radiation therapy plus a chemotherapy regimen, including procarbazine, lomustine and vincristine (PCV), experienced a longer progression-free survival and overall survival than did patients who received radiation therapy alone. These are the results of […]
Tags: brain cancer