October 25, 2015 College athlete Lauren Hill’s fundraising inspires $15G donation On Friday, Lauren Hill, the Mount St. Joseph basketball player whose fight with terminal brain cancer has put her on the national stage, was named The View’s first “Viewer of the Week,” and the show’s hosts announced a big donation in her name.
October 25, 2015 Woman faked terminal brain cancer to dupe community, police say A Utah woman allegedly faked having brain cancer to trick her colleagues and neighbors into donating thousands of dollars for her alleged treatment, fox6now.com reported.
October 25, 2015 100 burritos in 100 days: One friend’s fundraiser for fraternity brother with stage 4 cancer It sounds like a joke— or a typical college student’s diet— but for Joe Gallo, 21, eating a burrito daily for 100 days has a serious purpose. Gallo’s friend, Bret Grund was diagnosed in April with stage IV glioma.
October 25, 2015 New treatment may help combat deadliest form of brain cancer Doctors have discovered a way to potentially prevent the spread of glioblastoma – the deadliest form of brain cancer.
October 25, 2015 California scientists test Ecstasy as anxiety-reducer for gravely ill California scientists are testing whether the illegal psychoactive drug commonly known as Ecstasy could help alleviate anxiety for terminally ill patients, the trial's principal funder said on Tuesday.
October 24, 2015 Terminally ill woman who intends to end her life posts new video about her condition Brittany Maynard, 29, a terminally ill woman who’s made headlines for her decision to end her life, may not do so on the scheduled date of Nov. 1, she said in a new video posted Wednesday.
October 24, 2015 19-year-old girl wakes up during brain surgery, asks doctors ‘How’s it going?’ A teenage girl in Poland woke up during brain surgery and asked her doctors how the operation was going, The Daily Mirror reported.
October 24, 2015 Scientists find potential therapy to suppress deadly brain cancer genes Nearly 16,000 new cases of glioblastoma multiforme (GBM), a deadly and incurable brain tumor, are reported each year in the United States, and the median survival rate is only 14 to 16 months.
October 24, 2015 Hide and seek: Brain cancer cells ‘lose’ mutations to evade cancer drugs A new study published in the journal Science has revealed that brain cancer cells can actually evade many current cancer drugs – by temporarily scaling down a certain genetic mutation that the drugs target.
October 24, 2015 Celldex vaccine helps brain cancer patients live longer, study Adding an experimental Celldex Therapeutics Inc vaccine that enlists the immune system to fight cancer to standard therapy helped patients with the deadliest type of brain cancer live longer, according to data from a midstage trial presented on Sunday.
