Author: Jade Passey
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Finding kinder and more targeted ways to treat medulloblastoma
Researchers in Newcastle have found a key genetic variation in medulloblastomas that may pave the way for more effective targeted treatments.
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Uncovering ways that glioblastomas resist treatment
Our Junior Fellow Dr Spencer Watson and his team at The Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research at the University of Lausanne in Switzerland are researching new ways to treat glioblastoma.
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How are scientists working to improve brain tumour diagnosis?
This month we sponsored an event in Manchester which brought together brain tumour experts to talk about new technologies that could improve brain tumour care.
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National research funding announced for brain tumours
The National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR) has announced two new calls for research into brain tumours.
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Dabrafenib and trametinib approved to treat childhood gliomas
The combination treatment of dabrafenib and trametinib to treat childhood gliomas is approved in England and Scotland.
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New insights may improve treatment for meningiomas
With our funding, researchers in Canada have found key features in different meningiomas that can help predict tumour response to the most common treatments.
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Our research reveals potential new drug to target rare childhood brain tumour
Ribociclib – a drug already used to treat breast cancer – may help slow the growth of diffuse hemispheric glioma.
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Vorasidenib – a promising new drug to treat low-grade gliomas
An international phase 3 clinical trial has shown that vorasidenib could be a new targeted treatment for those diagnosed with a low-grade glioma.
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New glioblastoma imaging shows how tumour cells respond to treatment.
Innovative imaging technology and machine learning developed by our Future Leader, Dr Spencer Watson, helps us understand how glioblastomas respond to treatment.
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Dabrafenib and trametinib – NICE guidance published
The guidelines recently published by NICE mean that NHS England will be using dabrafenib and trametinib – the first ever targeted treatment for childhood brain tumours – to treat children whose tumours have a BRAF V600E mutation.
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Being Benign – Callum Ewing’s story
Callum is a recent broadcast journalism graduate who used his final project to highlight his brain tumour diagnosis. Being Benign is a two part documentary where he interviews his parents, others in the brain tumour community and also a professor who works on childhood brain tumours.
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The Ways Ahead project – finding better ways to support people with their diagnosis
The Ways Ahead project aims to find ways to support, and improve quality of life for those diagnosed with a lower-grade brain tumour. It also explores ways to help friends and family who are supporting those diagnosed.
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BRAF mutations in childhood brain tumours
Research that we funded nearly 20 years ago laid the foundations for last week’s approval of dabrafenib and trametinib to treat childhood gliomas.
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CAR-T cell therapy in brain tumour treatment
CAR-T cell therapy is a type of immunotherapy that may be promising for treating brain tumours. There is lots of research in this field across the globe and it may one day be used more widely to treat this devastating disease.
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The ARISTOCRAT clinical trial – perspective from a patient advocate
Peter Buckle is a patient advocate and has worked with several teams, including the ARISTOCRAT team to champion research and clinical trials.
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“It changes everything” – the impact of living with a lower-grade glioma
Living with a lower-grade glioma has a profound impact on those diagnosed, and their families. This is well documented anecdotally but needs to be scientifically addressed so that everyone affected by a brain tumour diagnosis gets the help and support they need.
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Nanotechnology could help understand how glioblastomas respond to treatment
A new nanosurgical tool – about 500 times thinner than a human hair – could help us understand how glioblastomas become resistant to radio- and chemotherapy. Up until now, no other technology has been able to do this.
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The glioblastoma diagnosis that changed our lives
Five years on, Nikki Saunders shares her experience of both her mum and brother being diagnosed with a glioblastoma.
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Dabrafenib and trametinib – a new treatment on the horizon?
Recent research suggests that there could be a new treatment on the horizon for some children diagnosed with low and high-grade gliomas.
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“Carpe Diem, that motto is important to me. I live in the moment”
Natalie McKenna-Mounty was diagnosed with a glioblastoma in 2020, her tumour returned in June this year, and now she is supporting our new research funding to find better glioblastoma treatments.
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Life-changing treatment means Zac lives a relatively normal life
Zachery Eckworth, now 11 years and living in Hampshire, was just 14 months old when we was diagnosed with an optic nerve glioma.
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Sheffield scientists take on Sheffield 10K to raise money
Researchers from the University of Sheffield ran the Sheffield 10K on 24th September to raise money for us, a charity close to their hearts.
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Harry Smith wins JustGiving Young Fundraiser of the Year!
He has raised more than £29,000 for The Charity in memory of his sister, Emily.
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“There’s no other word for it, her treatment and the side effects were brutal”
Layla Mistry, now nine, from Sonning, in Berkshire, was just two when she was diagnosed with medulloblastoma in July 2016.