Michael Strahan is well-known for being an American television personality, journalist, and former NFL Defensive End (DE) for the New York Giants. Now, the family man and proud father is…
Four-year-old Rayhan Majid of North Lanarkshire, UK was a healthy little boy who enjoyed swimming, football, and Taekwondo. He began to have severe headaches in October 2017. His mum,…
Currently, the standards-of-care for treating medulloblastoma include surgical interventions, chemotherapy, and radiation. Finding new and effective treatment options would help to improve patient outcomes. According to an article in The…
Mustang Bio, a biopharmaceutical company, and City of Hope, a cancer center, have just revealed that their first participant in their Phase 1 clinical trial for leptomeningeal brain tumors including…
What if we could harness a naturally occurring compound to starve and kill serious brain tumors? According to Medical XPress, researchers from Queen Mary University of London are working to…
Welcome to Study of the Week from Patient Worthy. In this segment, we select a study we posted about from the previous week that we think is of particular interest…
Could something that you're exposed to while still in the womb impact your health? Although it may not be something we think about often, the answer is yes. What we're…
Meet Cameron Scott, eight-year-old superhero who has been declared free from his stage 4 brain cancer! Specifically, Cameron was diagnosed with medulloblastoma, a rare high-risk tumor which spread to his…
The FDA has recently granted its Rare Pediatric Disease designation to Moleculin's WP1066 for three indications: atypical teratoid rhabdoid tumor, diffuse intrinsic pontine glioma, and medulloblastoma. This designation will aid…
According to Genetic Engineering & Biotechnology News, researchers recently discovered a potential therapy for patients with aggressive subtypes of medulloblastoma. There are four subtypes of this condition. The first is…
Treatment options for Gorlin syndrome are often surgical, meaning that patients face possible scarring, loss of facial function and structure, and lowered quality of life. PellePharm aims to change…
According to a story from dailypost.co.uk, it didn't take long for Catherine Kelly to determine that her three year old son had a brain tumor; in fact, she made the…
Of pediatric cancers, brain cancer has the highest rate of mortality and medulloblastoma is the most common of brain cancer diagnoses in children. It's a brain cancer that originates in…
A team of researchers from the University of North Carolina have been exploring an experimental method of delivering drugs to medulloblastoma that involves converting skin cells into stem cells that…
A study that looked into what genetic factors influence medulloblastoma development has been published in Lancet Oncology. In it, researchers outline several genes they believe are linked to tumour formation…
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