The patients all were receiving surgery to remove glioma tumors, a type of brain cancer. The test also accurately assessed samples with known cancer and samples without any cancer, the researchers ...

The removal of a malignant brain tumor or glioma can extend a patient's life by many years depending on the type of glioma. However, it can also mark the start of another difficult health journey.

A study, published in Cancer Cell, shows that high-grade glioma tumor cells harboring DNA alterations in the gene PDGFRA responded to the drug avapritinib, which is already approved by the United ...

A key problem is the ability of glioma stem cells to regenerate tumors after treatment and resist conventional therapies, making them a primary reason for treatment failure. Recent discoveries ...

Firefighters with increased exposure to certain chemical compounds are more likely to develop gliomas -- the most common type ...

The glioma tumors from 17 individuals (with an average fire-fighting history of 22 years) were compared with those from 18 individuals in non-firefighting occupations.

Join JCO PO Article Insights fellows as they summarize the top articles in the journal. Low grade glioma located in the hypothalamic chiasmatic region, thalamus and the brain stem are classified as ...