Cancer

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Light at the End of the Scalpel
Telling cancer from non-cancer is tough for brain surgeons. Scorpions, Amazon.com and the legacy of a dying girl might change that.
  • Wellcome Trust
Your selections: Cancer
A History of the Classification of Glioma Brain Tumors
A meticulous repository of images and tissue samples led to the categorization of brain tumors and the development of treatment for glioblastomas.
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Tumors on the Brain
Brain cancer isn’t a single disease.  Cancers arise in many different brain cells and tissues.
  • BrainFacts/SfN
Light at the End of the Scalpel
Telling cancer from non-cancer is tough for brain surgeons. Scorpions, Amazon.com and the legacy of a dying girl might change that.
  • Wellcome Trust
Neuroscience of Under the Skin Starring Scarlett Johansson
In the eerie science fiction film, Under the Skin, starring Scarlett Johansson as an alien vixen clothed in human skin, roaming the earth in search of single men for nefarious purposes, a turning point comes when she offers a hooded man on a dark road a ride in her vehicle.
The Blood-Brain Barrier
Identifying new ways to bypass the brain's elaborate security system may one day lead to better outcomes for patients with brain tumors or other neurological disorders.
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Brain Tumors in Children
The Children's Hospital of Wisconsin outlines the causes, symptoms, and treatment for different types of brain tumors.
  • Children's Hospital of Wisconsin
Do cell phones cause brain cancer?
Over the past two decades there have been many studies aimed at detecting a risk of brain cancer associated with cell phone use.
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Brain Tumor Basics
Whether cancerous or not, brain tumors are serious because they can interfere with normal brain function.
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Glioma Brain Tumors
Lethal glioma tumors are one of the most devastating diseases because they are so difficult to treat, much less cure. But now scientists are on track to find potential treatments.
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