brain cancer

Khalid Shah engineers stem cells to deliver cancer therapeutics directly to tumors, thereby increasing their efficacy.

The new, implantable device converts ultrasound waves into electrical energy inside the brain, interfering with tumor cell division.

A wireless brain implant inhibits tumor growth in rats, overcoming many design flaws of current devices used to treat glioblastoma.

Starving glioblastoma tumors of the cholesterol made by astrocytes could suppress brain cancer progression.

At Brigham and Women’s Hospital, the cancer biologist is combining research into the tumor microenvironment with the principles of neuroscience to tease apart how cancers grow—and how to stop them.

Neuron-like glioblastoma cells are the pioneers of deadly tumors’ spread through the brain, contributing to their devastating invasiveness, a study in mice finds.

In a small clinical study, focusing ultrasound beams on tumors in patients’ brains helped open the blood-brain barrier to facilitate drug delivery.

Researchers turned white blood cells called neutrophils into drug-smuggling “neutrobots,” which penetrated the blood-brain barrier to treat brain cancer in mice.

Researchers use a cutting-edge technique to map the blood vessels of brain tumors as patients are awake during surgery with the hope of reducing damage to adjacent tissues.

Inhaling combustion-produced particles may lead to the development of brain tumors.

Three studies show that tumor cells can behave like neurons.

The results of an early trial in 31 brain cancer patients finds immune activity boosted in the tumor, and possibly longer survival.

Researchers use 3-D printing technology to construct a brain cancer model that accurately recapitulated in vivo biology and predicted patient drug responses.

The technology has wowed the field by all but obliterating some patients’ blood cancers, but solid malignancies present new challenges.

The results cannot be extrapolated to humans, researchers caution.

More than one-fifth of individuals treated with the genetically modified virus survived at least three years.

After I was diagnosed with brain cancer and started to lose my mental health, the importance of my job came into clear focus.

Neutrophils loaded with the chemotherapy drug paclitaxel traverse the blood-brain barrier and kill residual cancer cells after tumor-resection surgery in mice.