Author: Piers Townley

Researchers are pioneering a promising use of focused ultrasound against glioblastoma, an aggressive brain tumour.

Researchers have developed a new ‘liquid biopsy’ blood test to diagnose brain tumours, which could reduce the need for invasive procedures.

COVID-19 is an unprecedented crisis which has had a profound impact on health and care services across the UK and will continue to have an impact for the months and years to come.

The human genome contains nearly 22,000 genes and various studies have explored the nearly 2% of DNA that creates proteins. Far less is known about the remaining 98% of DNA that does not encode protein.

A new machine learning approach can classify gliomas, a common type of brain tumour, into low or high grades with almost 98% accuracy, researchers report in the journal IEEE Access.

Australia is joining the clinical trial to test a new treatment in children with brain cancer. The trial will be led by Sydney Children’s Hospital.

Around 2.4 million people in the UK are waiting for cancer screening, tests or treatment because of disruptions to the NHS, according to new analysis by Cancer Research UK.

Researcher Todd Hankinson and his team at Children’s Hospital Colorado have studied biological differences between paediatric and adult ACP tumours

Freyja, from Porthtowan, on the Cornish north coast, launched the Wholesome World App last year and in April, it gained NHS approval.

COVID-19 has dramatically transformed the research landscape for our community but we remain driven to accelerate new treatments.

Researcher Till Milde and his team from the Hopp Children’s Cancer Center Heidelberg (KiTZ) have developed a new test system.

The NIHR announced yesterday that they have published a framework for restarting research activities that have a been paused as a result of Covid-19.

Sally Bramall says fundraising for research even more vital during this COVID-19 crisis.

This collaborative plan will award outstanding neuro-oncology centres ‘Tessa Jowell Centre’ status within weeks.

Dominic is a former defender who played for, among others, Liverpool, Leeds and Scotland during a 15-year career is recovering from a brain tumour diagnosis.

The Center for Advancing Innovation (CAI) announces winners of the Brain Race, an open innovation contest to advance high-impact inventions and solutions to defeat brain tumors.

Olympian Tom Daley will take on the 2.6 challenge with 26 Olympians from Team GB on Sunday.

The charity industry’s leading organisation lists The Brain Tumour Charity as one of the best to work for .

Join us in the nationwide 2.6 challenge and help our community raise vital funds for research

As part of its response to the coronavirus COVID-19 pandemic, the Government identified individuals who are ‘extremely vulnerable’ – that is, those at ‘very high risk of severe illness’ from the virus.

Scientists carried out a large-scale study of 241 infants from around the world.

Since the vote for Brexit in 2016, there has been the possibility of the UK leaving the EU without a deal. Consequently, to avoid disruption if supply routes from the EU were affected, the Government asked pharmaceutical companies to stockpile an extra six weeks’ worth of medicines.

When her grandson Logan died from a DIPG brain tumour in 2017, Fiona vowed to drive change for everyone affected.

With the UK in the Brexit transition period until the end of the year, regulation of clinical trials is likely to be under discussion in UK-EU negotiations on the future relationship