A.I. app could assist doctors in brain tumor survival prediction

A new artificial intelligence-powered app could help doctors predict survival and determine treatment for people with meningiomas.

McGill University • futurity
Feb. 18, 2020 ~3 min

‘Google Earth’ of endometrial cancer may lead to new treatments

"This is like the Google Earth of endometrial cancer.… We tried to measure everything we possibly could. Then we searched for patterns."

Julia Evangelou Strait-WUSTL • futurity
Feb. 14, 2020 ~7 min


Total tumor removal may extend survival for patients with deadly glioma

Surgically removing the entire tumor may add years of survival for patients with brainstem high-grade gliomas, one of the deadliest forms of brain cancer.

Amy Mone-JHU • futurity
Jan. 9, 2020 ~4 min

Brain tumor organoids hint at how to best treat glioblastoma

Brain tumor organoids grown from someone's own glioblastoma may answer the question of how best to treat it.

Hannah Messinger-Penn • futurity
Dec. 27, 2019 ~6 min

3D-printed device weeds out blood cells to find cancer

A new 3D-printed device can filter out red blood cells to leave undamaged cancer cells which could help diagnose disease or improve personalized treatments.

John Toon-Georgia Tech • futurity
Nov. 1, 2019 ~6 min

Severe brain tumors ‘plug into’ healthy neurons to grow

Severe brain tumors called gliomas integrate themselves into the brain's wiring, getting electrical signals that help them grow via healthy neurons.

Erin Digitale-Stanford • futurity
Sept. 23, 2019 ~8 min

‘STAMP’ gets more cancer info from least invasive biopsies

New technology could help doctors get earlier information on a cancer's agressiveness from the least invasive type of biopsy.

National University of Singapore • futurity
Sept. 23, 2019 ~6 min

Some cancer cells turn cannibal to survive chemotherapy

Some cancer cells get the energy they need to survive chemotherapy by going cannibal and chowing down on neighboring tumor cells.

Keith Brannon-Tulane • futurity
Sept. 20, 2019 ~3 min


Shorter proton therapy can safely treat prostate cancer

Higher doses of proton therapy over a shorter amount of time effectively treats prostate cancer—and is safe for patients, a new study shows.

John Infanti-Penn • futurity
July 10, 2019 ~4 min

After brain tumor radiation, more cognitive trouble for women

"We need to look at the biological factors that are making females more vulnerable to life-saving radiation treatment."

Anna Varela - Georgia State • futurity
June 25, 2019 ~3 min

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