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Nebraska family faces unthinkable future with brain tumor diagnosis
18 Apr 2024 15:15 GMT
Days after celebrating Easter with family, Scribner residents Brandy and Abdoul Dabo noticed that something was “off” with their five-year-old son, Zain. Seemingly overnight, he began to have trouble walking, he couldn’t swallow any food and his speech …
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Penn-pioneered cancer treatment shows promising results in treating brain cancer in new study
27 Mar 2024 19:06 GMT
… growing and aggressive form of brain cancer. Currently, there is no cure … treating blood cancers such as lymphoma, leukemia, and multiple myeloma.
Stephen … two proteins commonly found in brain tumors in what is known as …
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‘We were shocked’: CAR-T rapidly reduces size of brain tumors in phase 1 trial
27 Mar 2024 17:34 GMT
March 27, 2024
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14 Mar 2024 22:40 GMT
… , the most aggressive type of brain cancer, has shown promise in shrinking … the NEJM study and a brain-tumor surgeon at Massachusetts General Hospital … treat blood cancers, such as lymphomas, some forms of leukemia and …
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Tumor Shrinkage in Brain Cancer Patients Renews Optimism for CAR-T in Solid Malignancies
14 Mar 2024 00:42 GMT
… a dramatic response in brain cancer, rekindling optimism that the … General’s Center for Brain Tumor Immunology and Immunotherapy. “ … of certain types of lymphoma, leukemia and myeloma. … industry’s interest in developing brain cancer therapies, Maus said.
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Living drugs that reprogram patients’ immune cells show early promise against hard-to-treat brain tumors
13 Mar 2024 21:38 GMT
… on the surface of the brain tumor cells. The Mass General … blood cancers like leukemia and lymphoma since 2017.
Now, researchers … CAR-T in advanced glioma brain tumors, which included 65 patients. … participants had had their brain tumors come back at least …
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I beat brain cancer and was told to 'pop the Champagne' to celebrate - but just days later doctors found the disease had cruelly returned
13 Feb 2024 13:53 GMT
… is to fight infections.
Lymphoma can form in the lymph … Headaches
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'I'd … primary central nervous system (CNS) lymphoma.
The cancer, which around … raise awareness of primary CNS lymphoma and to help the …
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A blood test to detect cancer? Some patients are using them already.
16 Apr 2024 22:25 GMT
… diagnosis of mantle cell lymphoma, a rare but … example, he said, brain cancer frequently is an elusive target … are not effective for brain cancer because brain cancer spreads rapidly, even … a form of Hodgkin lymphoma. After radiation and chemotherapy, …
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A blood test to detect cancer? Some patients are using them already
16 Apr 2024 18:26 GMT
… diagnosis of mantle cell lymphoma, a rare but … example, he said, brain cancer frequently is an elusive target … are not effective for brain cancer because brain cancer spreads rapidly, even … a form of Hodgkin lymphoma. After radiation and chemotherapy, …
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Mother diagnosed with brain tumor 9 days after giving birth
09 Jan 2024 07:40 GMT
… asking for support following her brain tumor diagnosis, which came just days … up eventually going to the brain tumor doc, and he said the … treament of non-Hodgkins’s lymphoma in her eyes in 2021 …