The study included 28 patients with progressive or recurrent glioblastoma (GBM), the most aggressive
primary brain tumor,2 or high-grade glioma.
Sabaawy, who is also a member of the Clinical Investigations and Precision Therapeutics Program at Rutgers Cancer Institute and an associate professor of medicine at Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, said that the fact that GBM is the most common and deadly
primary brain tumor is what prompted his lab to focus on this type of brain tumor.
A Glioma is a type of tumor that originates in the brain and is also known as a
primary brain tumor. There are numerous types of gliomas which are entitled based on the origin of the cell type including oligodendrogliomas, astrocytoma, ependymomas, and glioblastoma.
McCain previously had several early-stage melanomas removed and, while melanoma can metastasize to the brain, a
primary brain tumor like McCain's forms because of abnormal cell growth in the brain tissue rather than spreading to the brain from elsewhere in the body.
Ependymoma is the third most common pediatric
primary brain tumor and accounts for about 10% of pediatric central nervous system (CNS) neoplasms [1].
Fifty patients provisionally diagnosed as low and high grade
primary brain tumor on MRI and MRS were included in the study before surgical biopsy or resection.
Moleculin Biotech announced it has entered into an agreement with Emory University to enable expanded cancer research on Moleculin's WP1066 molecule for the possible treatment of medulloblastoma, a pediatric malignant
primary brain tumor. Physician-scientists at Emory University and Children's Healthcare of Atlanta have requested support to continue research aimed at the development of a novel treatment of medulloblastoma using WP1066 and Moleculin has agreed to supply them with a pure form of WP1066 for preclinical testing for the potential treatment of medulloblastoma.
Centralized databases available for describing
primary brain tumor incidence, survival, and treatment: Central Brain Tumor Registry of the United States; Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results; and National Cancer Data Base.
"Subsequent tissue pathology revealed that a
primary brain tumor known as a glioblastoma was associated with the blood clot," the statement noted.
They were monitored between 1993 and 2010 to see if they developed a
primary brain tumor, and information on educational attainment, disposable income, marital status, and occupation was obtained from national insurance, labour market,and national census data.