Tag: brain
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Cancer Research UK Clinical Trials
Cancer Research UK is the UK’s leading cancer charity that holds a prominent stance and multiple pioneering work in developing a better understanding of cancer, diagnosing and treating cancer with the hope of eliminating forms of cancer, preventing people developing it through early detection and awareness of its risk factors and causes and every patient…
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A Novel Genetic Test Using Nanopore-based assay
Nanopore genetic sequencing is an innovative technique where the graphical interface software Rapid nanpOre Brain IntraoperatIve classificatioN (ROBIN) presents sequencing results of patients in real-time as data is being analysed and interpreted from a single assay (Deacon et al., 2025). The World Health Organisation (WHO) classification of tumours of the central nervous system (CNS) has…
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Recent Advances In CAR T Cell Therapy
McMaster University (2024) announced that a pre-clinical animal (xenograft) model study led by the Singh Lab has discovered that chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) CAR-T cell therapy may be used to treat glioblastoma, a malignant brain cancer. Current treatments for brain cancer were established by Stupp and Colleagues (2005) and consist of maximal surgical resection of…
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Vorasidenib: Accept Or Reject?
In recent reports, it was announced that the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) has declined to formalize the acceptance of the use of Vorasidenib on the National Health Service (NHS). Vorasidenib is a targeted therapy that is administered orally for patients with low-grade gliomas. This took place in October 2025 on the…
The Farah Saeed Project 