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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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Magnetic microbots show promise for treating aneurysms and brain tumours
14 Mar 2024 10:06 GMT
… invasive treatments for aneurysms and brain tumours.
When attempting to stop bleeding … the flow of blood to brain tumours (a process known as embolization … periods of time (from the X-ray guidance system) – Zang points out …
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CERN's particle accelerator tech is turned on brain tumors
08 Mar 2024 07:01 GMT
… scientists in Germany to treat brain tumors with greater precision and safety … other problems.
To minimize this, X-ray computed tomography (CT) scans can …
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‘I'm beaming again after brain tumour therapy gave me my life back'
28 Feb 2024 23:03 GMT
… once stricken with a brain tumour is enjoying her childhood … of radiotherapy but without X-rays and holds back from … , but dangerously growing, brain tumour - called craniopharyngioma - … craniopharyngioma, a non-cancerous brain tumour, in August 2019 after …
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UK researchers launch brain cancer study comparing proton to photon therapy
27 Feb 2024 05:19 GMT
… assess the treatment in certain brain cancer patients.
Called APPROACH (Analysis of … survival rates following treatment.
As X-rays in photon radiotherapy continue to … enable intensity-modulated proton therapy.
Brain tumor patients and their relatives worked …
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‘Amazing’ eight-year-old girl who spent her birthday in hospital battling a brain tumour
21 Feb 2024 08:22 GMT
… who bravely fought a brain tumour, has been selected for a … being treated for a brain tumour and endured several rounds … pituitary gland tumours are brain tumours that start to grow … sensitive organs. Unlike the x-rays used in conventional radiotherapy, …
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Girl, eight, who battled brain tumour chosen to launch cancer charity event
19 Feb 2024 14:53 GMT
… hospital being treated for a brain tumour has been chosen to launch … that pituitary gland tumours are brain tumours that start to grow in … to sensitive organs.
Unlike the x-rays used in conventional radiotherapy, protons …
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'Shining star' Scots girl who beat brain tumour to enjoy ninth birthday cancer-free
19 Feb 2024 14:18 GMT
… girl who bravely beat a brain tumour has hailed her 'shining … through an ordeal
Unlike the x-rays used in conventional radiotherapy, protons …
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Singapore develops new and precise way to treat most common type of brain cancer
01 Feb 2024 18:30 GMT
… of brain cancer using a substantially lower dose of X-rays than … to curb the growth of brain tumours in mice, which paves … glioblastoma, the most common brain cancer among adults.
One way … radicals when X-rays activate them. The dose of X-rays patients …
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What are medulloblastomas? As Michael Strahan's daughter Isabella, 19, is diagnosed with brain cancer
11 Jan 2024 17:47 GMT
… revealed she is fighting a brain cancer that usually strikes young children … the most common type of brain cancer in children.
At 19, Isabella … particles called protons instead of x-rays like typical radiation.
According to …