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Pflasterer fights off brain cancer
15 Sep 2025 16:36 GMT
For two years, Regan Pflasterer didn’t feel well.
She had headaches with an aura, nausea, double vision and brief seizures.
“I would stare and stop what I was doing for a short period of time,” described Regan.
At the time, she and her husband, Tom, …
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Heartbreaking appeal as Irish man looks to defy the odds in deadly brain cancer battle
15 Sep 2025 14:11 GMT
… man living with an aggressive brain cancer has launched a fundraiser … current regime of chemotherapy and medication: "I don… back and it was a brain tumour," he recalled.
READ … following the collapse, the brain tumours had come back again.…
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Opinion: The Trump admin’s cruel disbanding of the Pediatric Brain Tumor Consortium
15 Sep 2025 09:29 GMT
… in funding to the Pediatric Brain Tumor Consortium (PBTC), an … malignant, and aggressive type of brain cancer, APXA (anaplastic pleomorphic xanthoastrocytoma). … irradiation, several rounds of experimental medication, and numerous hospitalizations.
After …
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Man from Normal fighting brain cancer with awareness, fundraising and plenty of courage
14 Sep 2025 14:08 GMT
… with Stage 4 astrocytoma — brain cancer.
Doctors removed a baseball-sized … trial through AstraZeneca for another medication that's supposed … in January 2023 showing the brain tumor that had developed behind … 2023 to remove a brain tumor the size of a …
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Cork man opens up on 'extraordinary' brain tumour recovery and the early symptoms he put down to stress
13 Sep 2025 16:20 GMT
A Cork brain tumour survivor has opened up in … on several different rounds of medication, but that his symptoms continued … doctors managed to identify a brain tumour. Surgery to remove the tumour …
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Contraceptive Tied to Higher Brain Tumor Risk in Women
11 Sep 2025 12:31 GMT
… increased risk for a common brain tumor type.
The risk for meningioma … is the most common primary brain tumor, and women are twice as … to counsel women taking these medications that meningioma may be a …
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Rutgers Scientist Receives Early Career Award for Work on Blood Brain Barrier
17 Sep 2025 02:51 GMT
… devastating for brain tumors. Advances for glioblastoma (a type of brain cancer), for example … to allow passage for critical medication?
It is both. I am … to improve treatment options for brain tumors.
Your lab uses zebrafish as …
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'Aged just four, I started staggering into things, I don’t know anyone else like me'
17 Sep 2025 05:17 GMT
… , followed by years of hormone medication to prevent premature puberty - … complication of treatment for childhood brain tumours near the pituitary gland which … of radiotherapy on children with brain tumours.
Kat said: “Just before my …
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Akron Children’s Announces Winners of Inaugural Awards
16 Sep 2025 19:06 GMT
… , Roach was diagnosed with a brain tumor. She had surgery a week … , even on weekends, to deliver medications to children. She often collaborates …
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Keeping Score: Charlie Kirk’s ‘Professor Watchlist’ Put Educators at Risk; Epstein Survivors on Capitol Hill; Lawmakers Condemn RFK’s ‘War on Science’
16 Sep 2025 00:37 GMT
… college students can access medication abortion and contraception at … Illinois students can access medication abortion care when they … by its association with medication abortion is preventing further … meningiomas, a type of brain tumor. Long-term users have …