Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A new brain cancer test using spinal fluid detects tumors with 100% accuracy, offering safer diagnosis and fewer risky biopsies.

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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 ...

A new breakthrough in the pathology of glioblastoma – the most common type of brain cancer, currently incurable – has been found, opening up the potential for a future treatment that could be as ...

Surprising way cancer cells clear problematic proteins in the brain For some time, we've known that it's rare to see people with both cancer and Alzheimer's disease. Now, scientists believe they may ...

Filippo Beleggia, MD, PhD, didn’t believe his own data. As a postdoctoral researcher, he spent years in the laboratory of Christian Reinhardt, MD, PhD, at the University Hospital Cologne, Cologne, ...