Want to learn about financial and legal resources for brain tumor patients? How about molecular testing and how it’s improving brain tumor diagnosis? The American Brain Tumor Association has a great page on their website called “Anytime Learning” where they post webinars that address many different topics related to brain tumors. Check out their site here >> http://www.abta.org/brain-tumor-information/anytime-learning/
Professor Steve Gill, M.D. in Bristol, England is developing an experimental way to treat brain tumors using 3D printing and catheters. The novel, non-clinically tested treatment involves implanting catheters to deliver chemotherapy drugs directly to the brain. See the BBC report here:
Beau Biden, son of Vice President Joe Biden, recently lost his battle with brain cancer. While it is uncertain which type of tumor took Biden’s life, it is believed to be a glioblastoma multiforme (GBM).
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Surgeons use a combination of their training, expertise and tools like image guided surgery to successfully remove brain tumors. Now, doctors at Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center in Seattle have developed another potentially viable technique using special tumor paint that makes cancerous tissue glow when exposed to near-infrared light. Lighting the way >> http://news.discovery.com/tech/tumor-paint-glows-for-surgery-150408.htm
June is Men’s Health Month and today begins Men’s Health Week, which have been developed to help raise awareness of preventable health problems and encourage early detection and treatment of disease.
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