Search Results < Yale School of Medicine

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Dr. Mary Barden on Yale Cancer Answers
Dr. Mary Barden in honor of Brain Cancer Awareness Month
29 May 2023
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Yale Biostatistics Researcher Awarded $13 Million Grant to Study Glioma Brain Tumors
A team of scientists led by Dr. Elizabeth B. Claus, professor of biostatistics at the Yale School of Public Health (YSPH) and an attending neurosurgeon in the Department of Neurosurgery at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, recently received a $13 million grant to help answer these questions by investigating the molecular evolution of lower-grade gliomas.
10 Jan 2023
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Tiny Nanoparticles Offer Large Potential for Brain Cancer Treatment
Researchers at Yale were part of a collaboration to develop nanoparticles that hold promise for delivering cancer drugs to the brain in the future.
6 Apr 2020
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Scientists Find Ally in Fight Against Brain Tumors: Ebola
Yale scientists have enlisted a most unlikely ally in efforts to treat glioblastoma, an often lethal form of brain — elements of the Ebola virus.
13 Feb 2020
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Shannen Doherty’s Brain Surgery To Remove Cancer – The Risks Involved and Will It Work? Neurosurgeons Say ‘Patients Are Living Longer’
Actress Shannen Doherty, 52, who’s bravely battled metastatic breast cancer underwent surgery to remove a tumor in her brain.
Source: Survivor Net
15 Jun 2023
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Treatment Breakthrough for an Intractable Brain Cancer
Servier’s drug vorasidenib helped glioma patients stave off cancer growth.
Source: Wall Street Journal
4 Jun 2023
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Smilow Shares: Brain Tumor Awareness Month
On May 10, 2023, in honor of Brain Tumor Awareness Month, members of our Chênevert Family Brain Tumor Center at Smilow Cancer Hospital and Yale Cancer Center shared information on what to expect after surgery to remove a tumor.
11 May 2023
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Surgeons wouldn’t touch a CT man’s brain tumor. Then one looked and said, ‘I can help that guy.’
Joe Brennan, a helicopter pilot and U.S. Army veteran, is tough and supremely confident of his ability to fly a chopper, even through a heavy rainstorm.
Source: Hartford Courant
26 Feb 2023
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By Exploiting the DNA Repair System, Yale Scientists Want to Crack Chemotherapy Resistant Brain Cancer
In a new study published in Science, Yale scientists describe an alternative drug to temozolomide that may overcome brain cancer's resistance to chemotherapy.
Source: Endpoints
28 Jul 2022
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Singing during surgery?
It's a nightmare scenario when under the knife, waking up in the middle of surgery and knowing what's going on. But in some cases, it can be a life saver.
Source: Fox61 News
23 Sep 2019