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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Press release: Personalised radiotherapy treatment set to benefit from CERN software: A collaboration of scientific disciplines is developing pioneering software to design radiotherapy tailored to individua...; 29 Apr 2013
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

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