Brain tumours

All about brain tumours, including symptoms and causes, tests to diagnose a brain tumour, treatment including surgery, radiotherapy, chemotherapy and current research. Living with brain tumours covers coping with your diagnosis, going back to work, driving and recovery for children.

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News: Early surgery for 'low-grade' brain tumours may result in longer survival: Early surgery for patients with slow-growing, low-grade glioma brain tumours may result in better survival than a wait-a...; 25 Oct 2012
Press release: Anti-alcoholism drug could help treat most common type of adult brain cancer: A drug that has been used to treat alcoholic patients for more than sixty years could potentially help treat glioblastom...; 24 Oct 2012
News: Gene 'fusion' linked to aggressive brain cancer: A small number of cases of glioblastoma - an aggressive brain tumour - are caused by DNA damage that joins two particula...; 26 Jul 2012

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News: New insight into how childhood brain tumours develop: We’ve funded many of the world’s most successful trials of new treatment for children with cancer, and this has contribu…
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