FOR the first time, the Muhimbili Institute of Neurology (MOI) is set to perform a state-of-the-art brain tumor removal ...

Brain tumors are abnormal growths of cells in or around the brain. They can be primary (originating in the brain) or secondary (metastatic, spreading to the brain from cancer elsewhere). They can also ...

The use of cesium-131 “seeds” to combat the reemergence of cancerous tumors has been used in humans for more than 20 years, but a team consisting of current and former Purdue University researchers ...

Brain tumors do not just invade healthy tissue. They also physically squeeze it, and that mechanical compression may be enough to trigger neuron death in the surrounding brain. Two peer-reviewed ...

Symptom severity, interference with daily functioning were improved ...

Glioblastoma is the diagnosis that neuro-oncologists dread and patients fear, a fast-growing brain cancer that resists surgery, radiation, and chemotherapy and almost always returns. For decades, the ...